noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hanging basket (= for putting plants in and hanging outside )
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All the shops had hanging baskets outside their doors.
hanging basket
hanging limply
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His arms were hanging limply .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
left
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She was wiped off and left hanging by branches.
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He reportedly found it very hard and was left hanging from his axes as both crampon placements broke loose nearing the top.
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One curtain was still left hanging there - a rich brocade, stiff with dust and age.
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And some of the nuances are lost on us, or left hanging as possibilities.
public
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Another of Gran's memories was witnessing the last public hanging in Salisbury when she was twelve.
■ NOUN
wall
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Elizabethan wall hangings and Jacobean plasterwork are to be found inside.
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Platters can sometimes make great temporary wall hangings .
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The Skopos Challenge exhibits 150 contemporary works selected by leading quilters, showing bed and cot quilts and wall hangings .
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The walls are decorated with black wall hangings and tapestries depicting skeletal forms rising from crude graves.
■ VERB
find
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She found a similar cushion hanging in front of her place, sewn in neat wool stitches.
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They found Lucifer's tail hanging in a tree and the donkey's head jammed on a gatepost.
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On one occasion, Valenzuela arrived in a torture room to find Gallardo hanging by handcuffs from a hook and whimpering.
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In there she found her husband hanging from a beam.
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She was disconsolate in consequence, and seemed to find time hanging heavily on her hands.
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He's surprised to find such jokes hanging on hospital walls.
leave
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She left the pickup door hanging open to examine the first line of trees.
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Her black eyes were bright, her lips curled back in a fearsome snarl that dribbled saliva and left her tongue hanging .
see
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Eventually he remembered - he'd seen her hanging out with Jim Hendrix in the sixties.
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In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light.
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Adam saw the machine-gunner hanging out of the open door of the Jet Ranger.
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Male speaker I saw the cat hanging from a tree and a man beating it with a stick.
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The first thing he saw was his helmet hanging from the branch of a tree near his hide.
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Through the open door I could see Harry hanging on to the horse's head and staring at me with frightened eyes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hanging/shooting etc is too good for sb
leave sth hanging in the air
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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wall hangings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Athelstan glimpsed the blackened, twisted face of Pike the ditcher hanging by the neck.
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Her eyes were drawn, as they so often were, to his portrait hanging just outside the Director's office.
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I noticed her hanging around the bar, staring through its window, while I ate my fish and potatoes.
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I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair.
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One wall was covered by a black velvet hanging .
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There's noticeably less equipment hanging from a scrambler, but pound for pound there will be more fleecy material visible.
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There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories, and treasures.
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With fatigue hanging in lead weights from her shoulders, she remembered the telephone number Robert Urquhart had dialled.