clothes hanger
noun
: a usually curved piece of metal, plastic, or wood that is used for hanging clothing : coat hanger
Examples of clothes hanger in a Sentence
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Nearby, a clothes hanger, recently rid of its contents, swayed.
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Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2022
The killers tortured the nude Waters before strangling him with a wire clothes hanger.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022
In the little rowboat with my father and his father, my job was to take a wire clothes hanger bent into a ring, bait it and pull up the crabs.
—Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
At the Lombard Street rally, Dr. Natalie Spicyn, held her 22-month-old son in her arms and a sign with a clothes hanger with a slash though it, waiving as passing cars.
—Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2022
Take a clothes hanger from the closet – the one with the clips – and clamp both sides of the curtains together.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2022
Unfortunately, in the process, the character herself was rendered about as expressive as a clothes hanger.
—New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
In capable hands, anything can become a pick: a clothes hanger, an orange juice carton, a twig, even the plastic packaging of the lock itself.
—Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023
Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2022
The killers tortured the nude Waters before strangling him with a wire clothes hanger.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022
In the little rowboat with my father and his father, my job was to take a wire clothes hanger bent into a ring, bait it and pull up the crabs.
—Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
At the Lombard Street rally, Dr. Natalie Spicyn, held her 22-month-old son in her arms and a sign with a clothes hanger with a slash though it, waiving as passing cars.
—Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2022
Take a clothes hanger from the closet – the one with the clips – and clamp both sides of the curtains together.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2022
Unfortunately, in the process, the character herself was rendered about as expressive as a clothes hanger.
—New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
In capable hands, anything can become a pick: a clothes hanger, an orange juice carton, a twig, even the plastic packaging of the lock itself.
—Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023
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