Thesaurus results for DANGLE

dangle

verb

ˈdaŋ-gəl

as in to hang

to place on an elevated point without support from below he dangled the string in front of the cat, hoping that it was in the mood for play

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Recent Examples on the Web And investors aren’t necessarily going to eagerly snap up some new bond just because the Treasury dangles it in front of them. —

Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024 Photos shared by the department showed the entire truck dangling off the highway, with just its rear hanging on the guardrail. —

NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024 Riders were shot 80 feet in the air to face the angry god Shiva, then swung close to stalactites and dangled upside-down over lava pits for what seemed an eternity. —

Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024 The researcher says by starting with dangling cloud resources instead of looking for issues with a specific domain or set of domains allows for issues to be discovered systematically. —

Matt Burgess, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dangle

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