How to Use hang around in a Sentence

hang around

verb

• Both numbers are elite and hang around the top of the league.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• Cloudy skies hang around, with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• In this case, though, Penn State didn’t just hang around.
  — Ralph D. Russo, ajc, 29 Oct. 2022
• And in the few places that do allow hunting, the pigs know not to hang around.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• As for the rest of the week, the mild temperatures will hang around.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2022
• The clouds will be slow to clear late in the day and chilly conditions will hang around.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• The year may be new, but the old ESG debate is still hanging around.
  — Margret Trilli, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• It can be hung around the neck or clipped onto waistbands to blow cool air up the shirt.
  — Matthew Parker, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• But as the dog days of summer linger, Covid is hanging around too.
  — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
• Plenty of clouds hang around, but very few showers reach the ground.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• A lot of managers don’t get the chance to hang around for the turnaround after a rebuild.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2023
• Foster yells at the rookies hanging around the crime scene.
  — Vulture, 31 Aug. 2023
• As winter comes to a close, the sun is starting to hang around in the sky for a bit longer with each passing day.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
• The keys to his apartment—on the ground floor, luckily, a city bus ride away—hung around her neck.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• This is the ability to hang around over the battlefield.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
• Some are in uniform, while others have school IDs hung around their necks.
  — Aina Marzia, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• These were planks of wood with the initials W.N. on them that would be hung around the necks of students caught speaking the language in school.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 29 July 2023
• Jupiter will hang around the evening skies until mid-April but will have a visitor on Feb. 14.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2024
• Warm temperatures will hang around the South and the Northwest through the weekend.
  — Janice Dean, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2022
• The Tar Heels have all the tools necessary to hang around or even win against a poor foul shooting Baylor squad.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
• This feels like a key stretch for the New England defense, which needs a stop and a Bills punt to be able to continue to hang around.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• That let a team missing its leading scorer and two bigs hang around far too long.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• For an even more playful take on this era, make paper snowflakes and ornaments to hang around the home.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• Even if your weekend plans don’t involve much more than hanging around the house, let this one take you away.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• Much of the snow and ice that blanketed the region Sunday hung around Tuesday.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 Jan. 2024
• Buckle up and start your engine, because this deal won’t hang around for long.
  — Georgie Peru, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2024
• Few record stores manage to hang around for more than 50 years, fewer still in the same location.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2024
• The dry weather will hang around through noon on Sunday before the next round of rain showers streams into the city.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2023
• The cold air is expected to hang around into next week, so is there hope of a warming trend on the horizon?
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Dec. 2022
• The last thing the 49ers need is for Green Bay to hang around until halftime or later and then get the idea that the win over Dallas was the start of something big.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024