How to Use hang together in a Sentence

hang together

verb
  • Our first chance to hang together was on Willie Nelson’s bus at Farm Aid.
    Katey Clifford, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
  • To make these measurements all hang together, changes in the timing of events have to be matched by changes in the position of those events in space.
    Chad Orzel, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The acting is good, while the story fails to really hang together.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2022
  • But the tiny margins also create a lot of pressure to hang together.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • The central conceit of The Killer is an intriguing one, but nothing here ever hangs together.
    EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But nothing in Lost City would really hang together without its main pair, whose chemistry movies like this inevitably live or die on.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • If the writers hang together, many execs expect the work stoppage to last until mid-September, when the Emmys are supposed to air, if not further out.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • This kit from Modular Closets includes three sections that can be be hung together or separately for more rod and shelf space.
    Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Most people recognize faces not from specific features, such as a unique beauty spot or the shape of a nose, but by processing them as a whole, taking in how all the features hang together.
    Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Here, the anxieties of the past all hang together in louche reconciliation.
    Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The singer, 31, posted a handful of photos on her Instagram Stories Thursday, showcasing some of their low-key hangs together.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • What makes this patchwork of styles, tones and time periods hang together is the thread of psychological realism that runs through every scene.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The movie doesn’t always hang together, a consequence, perhaps, of the story first being envisioned to serve a Sparks concept album performed live.
    Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In March, those yields spiked, rekindling fears that the eurozone’s various members wouldn’t hang together through the coronavirus crisis.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That condition, which is good for both countries, may return — if the inchoate coalition formed to oust Netanyahu can hang together and pass an impending confidence vote in the Knesset.
    Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • Works in the same series, sometimes in different media, are hung together in discrete arrangements.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Often that missing element is the conceptual discipline that allows a piece of theater, even when set on an empty stage, to hang together and score its points.
    New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • If Democrats do manage to hang together, there is little Republicans can ultimately do to prevent the bill from passing.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But the show never quite hangs together, creating a whole that’s substantially less than the individual parts.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As with the previous 21 months, Democrats will need to hang together to pass any legislation, bipartisan or otherwise.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • This particular storm’s strength and organization enabled it to hang together for many hours, helped by the fact that that there were no other storm systems nearby, Anderson-Frey says.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Theatre Three’s minimalist set by Track Curtis evokes a family under duress with a house seemingly made of popsicle sticks that barely hang together.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • Having these legendary canvases hanging together is a special event.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • The details of that situation do not entirely hang together, and in general the movie is more committed to its pandemic-era vibes than to perfect plausibility.
    Ross Douthat, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Before, the Japanese hang together, the Koreans hang together, the Chinese hang together, the Taiwanese hang together.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 20 May 2022
  • Each scene's framing feels like it was carefully assembled from comic book clippings, with barely disguised CGI trickery to keep everything hanging together.
    Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Pulling back from the dialogue-heavy skits that dominated De La’s first two albums allows Buhloone Mindstate to hang together as a rambling road trip, more introspective than the music industry critiques that would shape later albums.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The push is about what can grow in the space between the real and the imagined; Leichter has stitched together a narrative that purposely, beautifully, doesn’t quite hang together, one where raw emotion rubs up against fantastical possibility.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Republican lawmakers are likely to hang together in opposing fundamental changes to the tech industry, which also could affect smaller companies, while Democrats could be pulled in different directions.
    Marcy Gordon, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
  • These threads hang together beautifully, making Lessons in Chemistry’s excellent experiment more quirky and heartwarming than harrowing.
    Carole V. Bell, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2022

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