How to Use hanger-on in a Sentence

hanger-on

noun

• There's not been anybody — no girls or hangers-on — backstage at my shows since then.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• Tiny hangers-on are tucked into pockets and cavort in crevices.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
• Next week’s trade deadline, in theory, should shake off a few hangers-on.
  — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 28 July 2026
• And along with the song, the Roy dynasty and its hangers-on keeps bouncing around my skull.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• No pop artist has ever survived haters, handlers and hangers-on without a scratch.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• Many hangers-on were so hip that the famous artists imitated them, not the other way around.
  — Ian Penman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• There was no party in the studio — no flowing libations, no room full of hangers-on.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Every single character in the show — as well as the cast of hangers-on — was filthy, stinking rich.
  — Vulture, 30 May 2023
• Most of the remaining hangers-on were staging going-out-of-business sales.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
• Meynecke said his footage suggested the whales found their hangers-on annoying.
  — CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
• Their wealth involves a whole galaxy of servants and hangers-on who might feel threatened by a big change in their patron’s status quo.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• The Wild Card is mind-numbing showcase of boxing photos, sweat, noise and hangers-on.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
• Of course, the no-account crew that hangs around him — hangers-on is a better way to describe them — can get in the way of even his best intentions.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• To point to the existence of a few fanatic hangers-on is hardly to indict a movement or its methods.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
• The book orbits around an art scandal that pulls in collectors, curators, philosophers and hangers-on.
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• Mulligan plays Pamela, a quirky hanger-on of the Catton family.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Matthew becomes Oliver’s bro, his hanger-on, his social-media camera buddy.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
• Matthew is a classic hanger-on, whose own identity is mutable, molding himself to whoever is around him and shining their light on him.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
• The world has gotten a glimpse of the fawning, skeezy shamelessness of his famous hangers-on, but not enough to criminally implicate them.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
• In a government that is already owned and operated by far-right cranks and hangers-on, Bongino can only do so much damage on his own.
  — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
• And among the security staff, assorted suits and other hangers-on, the money promised to the players disappeared.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 17 June 2026
• Beasley offered one last bit of advice for young players entering the league with the demands of their team, family, and potential hangers-on waiting.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Let the succession battle begin, as the brothers, and various family hangers-on, duke it out for daddy's approval.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 25 May 2023
• Unlike other, sycophantic portions of right-wing media, Kirk isn’t simply a hanger-on to the conservative elite.
  — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
• The pop artist rose to fame by making striking screenprints from others’ photographs, assisted by young artists and hangers-on in a space aptly called the Factory.
  — Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2024
• In spite of attention from glossies such as Esquire, the area was never overrun by hangers-on—there was always a community but never really a scene.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Stars can bring one to two guests on the studio dime and a personal publicist, but that number is fungible, and the bigger the actor, the larger the retinue of handlers and hangers-on.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
• The entire sports industrial complex had descended on the city — executives, athletes, agencies, every form of hanger-on.
  — Ben Strauss, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Travers imagined that George would face pressure from management and hangers-on to change as an artist for Vegas, increasing his trepidation and resentment.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2023