How to Use hang in in a Sentence

hang in

verb

• The cards shuffled, the chips clicked, and a faint scent of stale beer hung in the air.
  — Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• There’s a lot of fighting, and the fate of the world is said to hang in the balance.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• The smell of coffee and pancakes and biscuits hung in the air.
  — Jack Howland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Fourth of July is the perfect time to hang in the sun, having lots of fun with friends and fam.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 July 2023
• With Major’s out, the future of Kang hangs in the balance.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 2 Jan. 2024
• The fate of over 1.4 billion people hangs in the balance.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2024
• The fate of the small Birmingham college has hung in the balance for months.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 8 Apr. 2023
• The guitar must be warm but just a bit bright, with a touch of drive and a long-tail reverb that hangs in the air.
  — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• There was shelling and shooting nearby, and the smell of death and gunpowder hung in the air.
  — Loay Ayyoub, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• But for the past five games, as their playoff fate has hung in the balance, the Warriors have stepped it up.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• The portal between two worlds has been opened and the fate of the world now hangs in the balance, as teen Jin (Ben Wang) learns in the spot.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• Bryce pulled me aside to show me a chic, lightweight suit hanging in his road case.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• He was found dead by hanging in his jail cell a month later.
  — Alyssa Johnson Miami Herald (tns), arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• Today, a painting of a cat hangs in the office of a hospice team that cared for Spence.
  — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 10 Aug. 2023
• And hanging in the air as Jones ran through his life here, there was the acrid scent of burning sugar cane.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• Photographs of the 1973 fire hang in the lobby of the current records center, near St. Louis.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• Whether that vision survives the upheaval in Niger still hangs in the balance.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
• Black gold had been gushing there since the nineteen-twenties, and a sulfurous odor hung in the air.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• His hands were hanging in a strange angle from his wrists in front of his chest and covered in blood.
  — Michael Rosenwald, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• The fate of the newest Apple Watch models has hung in the balance ever since.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
• Democrats are torn on whether to save Kevin McCarthy as his fate as House speaker hangs in the balance.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• This time, the fate of scores of hostages hangs in the balance and complicates Israel’s mission.
  — Sam Dagher, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2023
• Her picture will be included in the class of 2023 composite that will hang in the high school.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
• After days of clear skies, a single gauzy cumulus cloud hangs in the air.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• Copies were hung with pride on the walls of both players for decades, and hang in their children's houses today.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
• Now, there only is a sprint to the finish, a sprint for survival for those whose playoff fate hangs in the balance.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Stuart made three copies of the full-figure painting — one of which hangs in the White House — and five other versions.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• There was some sparking going with them hanging in the power lines in the basket.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
• So, as with every art form at the moment, a question hangs in the air: Does Fang feel threatened by the rise of creative AI?
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Despite her breezy delivery, the statement seems to hang in the air between them.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024