How to Use hang in in a Sentence

hang in

verb

• This is the last eclipse of the year, so hang in there.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
• The cards shuffled, the chips clicked, and a faint scent of stale beer hung in the air.
  — Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• There’s a lot of fighting, and the fate of the world is said to hang in the balance.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• The game was still hanging in the balance at the half with the Aces leading 52-49.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024
• As the final note hung in the air, Levine turned to Harris with a grin.
  — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2025
• The smell of coffee and pancakes and biscuits hung in the air.
  — Jack Howland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Not least for Tony, whose life hangs in the balance as the credits roll.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
• The Fourth of July is the perfect time to hang in the sun, having lots of fun with friends and fam.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 July 2023
• With Major’s out, the future of Kang hangs in the balance.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 2 Jan. 2024
• The fate of over 1.4 billion people hangs in the balance.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2024
• The fate of the small Birmingham college has hung in the balance for months.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 8 Apr. 2023
• The guitar must be warm but just a bit bright, with a touch of drive and a long-tail reverb that hangs in the air.
  — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• There was shelling and shooting nearby, and the smell of death and gunpowder hung in the air.
  — Loay Ayyoub, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• The paintings now hang in Tate Britain, where the dimness of the galleries slows the decay but can’t stop it.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• But for the past five games, as their playoff fate has hung in the balance, the Warriors have stepped it up.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• The portal between two worlds has been opened and the fate of the world now hangs in the balance, as teen Jin (Ben Wang) learns in the spot.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• The title words are from a piece of art hanging in Shapiro’s bathroom.
  — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
• Bryce pulled me aside to show me a chic, lightweight suit hanging in his road case.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• He was found dead by hanging in his jail cell a month later.
  — Alyssa Johnson Miami Herald (tns), arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• Today, a painting of a cat hangs in the office of a hospice team that cared for Spence.
  — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 10 Aug. 2023
• And hanging in the air as Jones ran through his life here, there was the acrid scent of burning sugar cane.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• Flesh from her buttocks hung in ribbons and blood poured from her pelvis.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• The future seemed to hang in the balance after this one pivotal event.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
• The scent of smoke hung in the air Thursday as passersby stopped to take in the scene and neighbors tried to make sense of the incident.
  — Daniel Miller Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• The sticky hot air hung in anticipation of the Eras Tour as beads of sweat dripped.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Photographs of the 1973 fire hang in the lobby of the current records center, near St. Louis.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the fate of the film, which does not yet have a distributor, hangs in the balance.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 July 2024
• For the third time in Raziq’s career, his job would hang in the balance as a result of his crimes.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Her words hung in the air, jarring against the faint mariachi music coming through the patio speakers.
  — Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
• Point out that even as democracy hangs in the balance, a planet ravaged by ever-deadlier heat waves, fires and storms isn’t a place any of us want to live.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2025