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Example sentences for "dangle"

Lexicographically close words:
dangereux; dangerous; dangerously; dangerousness; dangers; dangled; dangles; dangling; dank; danke
  1. Then it shall dangle bloody from the sky While all the mountains shake.

  2. Like golden links your names shall hang to mine And dangle down the ages.

  3. The legs, instead of being gathered, Oriental fashion, at the ankles, dangle loosely about the feet; and yet it is these same legs that are the chief distinguishing feature of the pants.

  4. His keen black eyes sparkle brightly through the long wool of his remarkable headgear, the ends of which dangle over his eyes like an overgrown and wayward bang.

  5. In past times it was planted with gibbets: the bleached bones of men who had dared to ask for an extension of liberty, or who doubted the infallibility of kings, were here left to dangle in the wind.

  6. The waving of his trees, the coarse garments that dangle on the clotheslines--for in such places it is ever washing-day.

  7. The right of my good pleasure, signor knave; who soon shall dangle on a hempen rope.

  8. Thou wilt receive thy dues, and dangle on our tree; come, then, give up thy shield.

  9. How all these Johnnies can dangle on, I don't know; it's not my idea of life.

  10. My word, how I dangle about here; it isn't good for my health.

  11. What, your most gracious onnur, a hannot I had the glory and the magnifisunce to dangle her in my arms, before she was a three months old?

  12. At dusk Bob returned with Ah-Sam to the farther end of the cavern and let the loose end of the rope dangle down the cliff-side.

  13. Mrs. Dangle and I have been diverting ourselves with the papers.

  14. Yes, sir; I make no secret of the trade I follow: among friends and brother authors, Dangle knows I love to be frank on the subject, and to advertise myself viva voce.

  15. Oh, if Mr. Dangle read it, that's quite another affair!

  16. It was Napoleonic, and more than consoled Dangle for the open derision of the Havant street boys at the handkerchief which still protected his damaged eye.

  17. Directly Dangle was alone he began, with infinite disgust, to scrutinise his darkling eye, for he was a neat-minded little man in spite of his energy.

  18. They were outside the Golden Anchor at Fareham, and preparing to mount, as Mrs. Milton and Dangle came round the corner from the station.

  19. It occurred to Mrs. Milton that if Widgery was the man for courtly devotion, Dangle was infinitely readier of resource.

  20. The idea of leaving Dangle behind seemed to him an excellent one.

  21. Dangle made a step, and a damaged knee became evident.

  22. AT THE RUFUS STONE He folded his arms as Dangle and Phipps returned towards him.

  23. Dangle seemed to jump, hang in the air momentarily, and vanish, and after a moment's pause came a heart-rending smash.

  24. Phipps was abashed by his inability to cope with the tandem, which he was now wheeling, but Dangle was inclined to be quarrelsome.

  25. Both Dangle and Widgery thought Phipps a bit of a cub, and Phipps thought both Dangle and Widgery a couple of Thundering Bounders.

  26. Mrs. Milton poured two cups, and Phipps and Dangle partook in passover form.

  27. All gather and all harvest, Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security, Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.

  28. She clasped her hands again, letting the fan dangle from her wrist.

  29. Otherwise I might ask you what the world calls a girl who encourages a man to dangle after her for weeks, till everybody talks about her, and then throws him over.

  30. At last, somewhere between forty and fifty, we begin to dangle a jaunty pair of eye-glasses, half plaything and half necessity.

  31. The keen tradesmen who tempt us are like the fishermen who dangle a minnow, a frog, or a worm before the perch or pickerel who may be on the lookout for his breakfast.

  32. There was no longer even the excitement of trying to dangle a little above Jude.

  33. Far out on the plains of the Panhandle, he and his dogs had killed many a wolf, and now he never doubted that, within a few days, Old Lobo's scalp would dangle at his saddlebow.

  34. So soon as the sun rises those two jackanapes we laid hold of shall dangle at the yard-arm.

  35. The Lauenberg knight was forced to dangle from our new gallows, despite the cry of his high birth and lineage; and the high-born Duke Albert of Saxony was ready to choke with rage.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dangle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.