A circumstance upon which subsequent events depend

Usage examples of hinge.

The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.

Clodius Afer asked in a cautionary tone, the helmet poised between his palms and the hinged cheek pieces flopping over the backs of his hands.

Two sturdy Guards threw their shoulders against the door, wrenching it off its hinges, and Seregil and Alec led the way to the trap door.

He nearly ripped the door to the armory off its hinges, took a deep breath and stepped onto the top of the armory stairs.

Everything hinged on my catching Astel off-guard, of maintaining the upper hand emotionally.

But he not only authoritatively assumes the truth of a future life: he speaks directly of it in many ways, often returns to it, continually hovers about it, reasons for it, exhorts upon it, makes most of his instructions hinge upon it, shows that it is a favorite subject of his communion.

The frame was a bifold, two photographs in matte gold, hinged in the middle.

He sprinted for it, bolstering the blaster as he moved, shouldering through the door, splintering it off its hinges and crashing inside.

It opened bookwise, the loops of the padlock serving as a hinge on the other side.

Their hinges were boughten hinges, and it was marvelous to see them open and shut.

The top rose up on boughten hinges, and under it was the place where she kept things.

Both the Bowman sisters watched closely as he flipped open the tiny brass hinge to reveal a small bottle sealed with thread and wax.

Maryalice, and Chia could see a little muscle working, in the hinge of his jaw, as he looked at her.

Her strength ebbed, and the hinges of her knees gave unexpectedly beneath her.

Mistress Fawcett attempts to move the shutters of the other window, but the hinges are rusty and defy her feeble strength.