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View definitions for dangle

dangle

verb as in suspend

Strong matches

Weak match

verb as in offer as inducement

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Example Sentences

At the central port, cranes dangle in disuse and buildings open to the sky.

He said the Taliban typically dangle peace talks as a time-buying tactic, and “believe they will win on the battleground.”

Decorative silk tassels dangle from the fingers of disembodied hands reaching through the walls.

Dangle mere feet from one of these behemoths to feel very small indeed.

Way to let the wife dangle way out there on a limb for you, man.

You have learnt to sit behind the stove like an old crone, and to dangle at the apronstrings of the women.

The devil especially loves to dangle his tail in the affairs of poor desolate women, and to this Caroline has come.

He sits shambling in the saddle, his smock and tall boots dangle on his bony figure.

A tangled wisp of unkempt sandy hair never failed to dangle below the curtain of the sun-bonnet on the back of her neck.

Every few steps some man would sink into the ice-pack up to his waist and his legs would dangle in slush without finding bottom.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dangle, such as: droop, flap, hang, sling, sway, and swing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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