Dictionary Entry

hang on

To wait a moment.

In a Sentence

“Hang on. Let me check.”

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Poetry examples for “hang on”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain
And hang on little twigs and start again.

With thistle-beards, and such small locks of wool
As hang on brambles. Well, he brought him home,
And reared him at the then Lord Velez’ cost.

Vitalized without option: who shall say
That did Life hang on choosing—Yea or Nay—
They had not scorned it with such penalty,

This is the cause that I could never yet
Hang on their sleeves that weigh, as thou mayst see,
A chip of chance more than a pound of wit.

This is the cause that I could never yet
Hang on their sleeves that weigh, as thou mayst see,
A chip of chance more than a pound of wit:

O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,

And he bended low back his knee;
And he made the bolts, the door hang on,
Loup frae the wa' right wantonlie.

As the perfumed tincture of the roses.
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:

With thistle-beards, and such small locks of wool
As hang on brambles. Well, he brought him home,
And reared him at the then Lord Velez’ cost.