DANGLE in a Sentence

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Sometimes an ellipsis can lead to a dangling modifier, as in the sentence "Once dressed, you should refrigerate the potato salad.".

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 Meanings and Examples of DANGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dangle
 v.  hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion; swing, as something suspended loosely
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The youth saw with surprise that the soldier had two wounds, one in the head, bound with a blood-soaked rag, and the other in the arm, making that member dangle like a broken bough.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  The cheapest and least delicate provisions are heaped in the shops; the coarsest and commonest articles of wearing apparel dangle at the salesman's door, and stream from the house-parapet and windows.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
3  If only she were Scarlett O'Hara again, out there on the floor in an apple-green dress with dark-green velvet ribbons dangling from her bosom and tuberoses in her black hair--she'd lead that reel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  He hauled from his pockets a heavy gold watch with dangling seals, a small miniature of the long dead Mrs. Wilkes and a pair of massive cuff buttons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Scarlett caught a flashing glimpse of thin legs, a flurry of skirts and underclothing and Melanie was in the saddle, her feet dangling far above the stirrups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  There had been the problem of trying to win Ashley's love and trying to keep a dozen other beaux dangling and unhappy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  She sat with her bare feet dangling, watching the play of muscles on his brown chest, her terrors forgotten.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  Ashley, following her, seated himself on the corner of the rough table, his long legs dangling easily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  Mariequita sat near by, dangling her legs, watching him work, and handing him nails from the tool-box.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
10  Looking down this room, one saw, creeping slowly, a line of dangling hogs a hundred yards in length; and for every yard there was a man, working as if a demon were after him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  His head was large; his shoulders narrow; his arms long and dangling; while his hands were small, if not delicate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
12  His head was shaved, as usual, with the exception of the crown, from whose tuft three or four faded feathers from a hawk's wing were loosely dangling.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
13  With his head on one side, his hand dangling above the dog's head he slept; he snored.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
14  The beldame meanwhile, because that was enough, had sunk back on her chair, the beads dangling from her fingers.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
15  And she pushed a campion flower in his moustache, where it stuck, dangling under his nose.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable.
2  Repeated attempts to rescue him failed because of snow storms and avalanches but on Wednesday two Pakistani military helicopters managed to fly close enough to his perch for one of them to dangle a line to him.
3  After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.
4  He has hosted Shia clerics from Iraq, plans to send planes full of Shia pilgrims to the country's holy cities, and dangle billions in investment to revive industry in the south.
5  There was a rope dangling down into a dark, bottomless hole.
6  Louise always has half a dozen boys dangling abouther.
7  The boss sat on the edge of the table dangling his legs.
8  The film opens with a shot of a climber dangling from a precipice.
9  Suddenly Indiana Jones found himself dangling from the edge of a precipice.
10  Potter took out a large spring-knife and cut off the dangling end of the rope and then said: "Now the cussed thing's ready, Sawbones, and you'll just out with another five, or here she stays."
11  Sometimes an ellipsis can lead to a dangling modifier, as in the sentence "Once dressed, you should refrigerate the potato salad.".
12  It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever.
13  We dangled pretty lights around the hall.
14  Huge earrings dangled from her ears.
15  And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents.