Dangle
verb
To hang loosely, often swaying from side to side.
A pair of shoes dangled from the power lines.
Often appears as...
- dangle from
- dangle over
verb
To offer something as an enticement.
He dangled the prospect of a promotion in front of her.
Often appears as...
- dangle the prospect of
- dangle a carrot
verb
To hang loosely, often swaying from side to side.
A pair of shoes dangled from the power lines.
Often appears as...
- dangle from
- dangle over
verb
To offer something as an enticement.
He dangled the prospect of a promotion in front of her.
Often appears as...
- dangle the prospect of
- dangle a carrot
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine objects hanging and moving to understand 'dangle' as a visual action.
The spider dangled from its web.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Connection
Something that dangles remains attached at one end or point while hanging freely.
The child's feet dangled over the edge of the chair.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Firmly Fixed
'Dangle' suggests that the object is not securely held in place.
The earrings dangled and sparkled with her every move.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine objects hanging and moving to understand 'dangle' as a visual action.
The spider dangled from its web.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Connection
Something that dangles remains attached at one end or point while hanging freely.
The child's feet dangled over the edge of the chair.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Firmly Fixed
'Dangle' suggests that the object is not securely held in place.
The earrings dangled and sparkled with her every move.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine objects hanging and moving to understand 'dangle' as a visual action.
The spider dangled from its web.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Connection
Something that dangles remains attached at one end or point while hanging freely.
The child's feet dangled over the edge of the chair.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Firmly Fixed
'Dangle' suggests that the object is not securely held in place.
The earrings dangled and sparkled with her every move.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
giving this wonderful speech and he was pronouncing the wonders of archaeology said you know archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on and and I I really believe that I have so much fun doing this archaeology even if I am being dangled on the end of a rope someplace you know hanging for my dear
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"Good" and "bad" are...
I was really happy when Fiona started using her right hand to bully a dangling stuffed sheep, but the therapist was fixated on my child's left hand. Fiona had a tendency not to use this hand very often, and she would cross the fingers on that hand. So the therapist said we should devise a splint,
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How data helps us...
losers went on a rampage not wanting to believe they really lost and actually ushered in the worst period of the war some two years long of absolute nightmare dangling people every time you hear that angelic sound are those chimes that ceasefire negotiations peace talks
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
that sort of skin around the beak joining onto the face so kind of a beak and the skin joining the face it's called the seer so the mouth really and you see the legs of the same color and he's doing a very characteristic thing he's got one foot actually dangling
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How do geckos defy...
creating enough combined force to support its weight. In fact, the whole gecko could dangle from a single one of its toes. That super stickiness can be broken, though, by changing the angle just a little bit. So, the gecko can peel its foot back off,
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How do you explain...
On this view, it's consciousness that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra. It's there right at its heart. This view, I think, the panpsychist view,
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The Secret Culture of...
do that she just very gently bends over kind of almost inverts her body vertically and picks the ray up and then slowly just raises her head and now she's you know four or five feet in front of me with this ray dangling from her mouth
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Alone on the Ice: The...
slipping out of the harness and ending his life rather than dangling and suffocating his first thought is a great regret that he didn't have a chance to eat the very last of the food and but he finally decides to summon up
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Are you a body with a...
such as neural prosthetics and wearable robots that could become extended parts of our bodies. Or the slightly more radical idea of mind uploading, which dangles the possibility of immortal life without a body
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Into Darkness by Bridget...
pale blue marble dangling in the dark Leeming Leviathan rotating the wrong way tilted sideways adorned in delicate rings so faint at first we fail to see them world with shorter days than our
Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
giving this wonderful speech and he was pronouncing the wonders of archaeology said you know archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on and and I I really believe that I have so much fun doing this archaeology even if I am being dangled on the end of a rope someplace you know hanging for my dear
Video examples
"Good" and "bad" are...
I was really happy when Fiona started using her right hand to bully a dangling stuffed sheep, but the therapist was fixated on my child's left hand. Fiona had a tendency not to use this hand very often, and she would cross the fingers on that hand. So the therapist said we should devise a splint,
Video examples
How data helps us...
losers went on a rampage not wanting to believe they really lost and actually ushered in the worst period of the war some two years long of absolute nightmare dangling people every time you hear that angelic sound are those chimes that ceasefire negotiations peace talks
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
that sort of skin around the beak joining onto the face so kind of a beak and the skin joining the face it's called the seer so the mouth really and you see the legs of the same color and he's doing a very characteristic thing he's got one foot actually dangling
Video examples
How do geckos defy...
creating enough combined force to support its weight. In fact, the whole gecko could dangle from a single one of its toes. That super stickiness can be broken, though, by changing the angle just a little bit. So, the gecko can peel its foot back off,
Video examples
How do you explain...
On this view, it's consciousness that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra. It's there right at its heart. This view, I think, the panpsychist view,
Video examples
The Secret Culture of...
do that she just very gently bends over kind of almost inverts her body vertically and picks the ray up and then slowly just raises her head and now she's you know four or five feet in front of me with this ray dangling from her mouth
Video examples
Alone on the Ice: The...
slipping out of the harness and ending his life rather than dangling and suffocating his first thought is a great regret that he didn't have a chance to eat the very last of the food and but he finally decides to summon up
Video examples
Are you a body with a...
such as neural prosthetics and wearable robots that could become extended parts of our bodies. Or the slightly more radical idea of mind uploading, which dangles the possibility of immortal life without a body
Video examples
Into Darkness by Bridget...
pale blue marble dangling in the dark Leeming Leviathan rotating the wrong way tilted sideways adorned in delicate rings so faint at first we fail to see them world with shorter days than our
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Karl Pilkington
British Actor
The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
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Pankaj Kapur
Indian Actor
I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.
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Fred Willard
American Comedian
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.
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Cub Swanson
American Mixed Martial Artist
If I never fought for the belt, it wouldn't bother me. That whole song and dance gets tiring, and it's a lot of playing favorites. I've just had it dangled in front of me so many times, I'm just like, whatever, man.
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Martin Mull
American Actor
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
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Christopher Daniels
Well, I think at this point, having won the championships that I aimed to win in my career, now the opportunities to wrestle different wrestlers is sort of the carrot that is dangling.
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Sue Bird
American Athlete
As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.
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Andre Benjamin
American Musician
If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
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Aesop Rock
American Musician
I would say the best toy for any cat is always some sort of dangling item on a string or fishing-rod-type structure.
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Natasia Demetriou
English Comedian
Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.
Quote examples
Karl Pilkington
British Actor
The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
Quote examples
Pankaj Kapur
Indian Actor
I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.
Quote examples
Fred Willard
American Comedian
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.
Quote examples
Cub Swanson
American Mixed Martial Artist
If I never fought for the belt, it wouldn't bother me. That whole song and dance gets tiring, and it's a lot of playing favorites. I've just had it dangled in front of me so many times, I'm just like, whatever, man.
Quote examples
Martin Mull
American Actor
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Quote examples
Christopher Daniels
Well, I think at this point, having won the championships that I aimed to win in my career, now the opportunities to wrestle different wrestlers is sort of the carrot that is dangling.
Quote examples
Sue Bird
American Athlete
As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.
Quote examples
Andre Benjamin
American Musician
If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
Quote examples
Aesop Rock
American Musician
I would say the best toy for any cat is always some sort of dangling item on a string or fishing-rod-type structure.
Quote examples
Natasia Demetriou
English Comedian
Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.
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