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vb. (present participle of hang about English)
Usage examples of "hanging about".
Got out at last, with earth hanging about his face and hair, he would suddenly fall away to dust.
I rushed forward, and turning the angle of the temple I found myself face to face with the past, for there as in bygone years were the pabas clad in their black robes, their long hair hanging about their shoulders, the dreadful knife of glass fixed in their girdles.
If she were not hanging about my neck I could marry some fine strapping girl who would give me an heir before a year was out.
By this time the people following the camels formed a train sufficient to draw the idlers hanging about the portal.
She was shuddering convulsively, her long hair was hanging about her, her eyes wild and anguished, and her lips shivering more than trembling.
The especially bizarre thing was that the artist had made his Africans look like white men - the limbs and quarters hanging about the walls of the shop were ghastly, while the butcher with his axe was hideously incongruous.