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How to pronounce dangle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms drop, swing
Type of hang
Has types droop, loll


the ornaments dangled from the tree.
Type Words
Type of suspend
Derivation dangling


He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree.

Examples of dangle

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He didn't know whether to play or leave and would just dangle his bat out there.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Strap into a harness and you can even dangle 10 feet above the crocodiles'heads.
From the cnn.com
The experimenters attached the other glove to the same wrist, letting it dangle.
From the sciencedaily.com
Near the end, four dancers recline on the floor and dangle their legs in unison.
From the sfgate.com
It's festooned with snow-covered flakes and stars that dangle over diners'heads.
From the kansas.com
The truly fascinating part of the equation is that the Penguins let Cooke dangle.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
When he looked at his team, there weren't many players he could dangle as bait.
From the sacbee.com
He thinks he can stop a speeding car and dangle its totaled carcass in his teeth.
From the chron.com
They drip and dangle from the walls, on shelves and on balconies above your head.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • Hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
  • Dangle is a term used in intelligence work to refer to an agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
  • (Dangles) Pavel Datsyuk. This one wrote itself.
  • (dangles) A curved barbell that holds hanging ornaments like beads or gems or fine chains.
  • Fly, leader and fly-line straight downstream with slack removed.
  • A project task with no predecessor or successor.
  • A general term referring to any earring that hangs or dangles from the ear.
  • Any part of a piece of jewelry that hangs freely and can move with the wearer. Dangles add motion to a piece.
  • Leave, get lost (Pick-Up, 3)