Hinged (on)

Usage examples of depended.

She was invested with the small gold medal from which depended two wiggly streamers.

She had just been one of the capable people he depended on, until she went away.

From one side of the collar depended a loop of decorated hide that circled the upper part of the big alien's arm.

Of course deep-space rendezvous were tricky, everyone knew that, and of course the EEC pilot couldn't be depended on to arrive at a precise location, as the cruiser would do, but this was no different from any other time, surely.

For one frantic instant she feared the Ssli might lie her unknown saboteur - and the cruiser depended, absolutely, on its Ssli - but its words reassured her.

But she knew that they weren't being nasty, they were trying to help her, and being able to help her depended on how cooperative she was.

They depended on me, and they died, ran through his mind like a prayer response.

She forced down an overwhelming impulse to rush to him, but their lives depended on her wits.

Dyson, it depended on the circumstances, but basically he was a lightweight.

The success of the whole plan depended on their being handled like a friendly.

Multi-jointed legs with backward-pointing knees depended from flat, shallow bodies a meter wide.

She's been looking up all the big words as if her life depended on it.

And on his approval, no matter what the Rowan had said, depended Afra’s continued appointment to Callisto Tower.

Everything Bunny cared about and counted on was changing, coming apart the way the ice, usually as much to be depended upon as the ground this time of year, had broken away beneath her.

The rest of this trip depended on Zainal being ordered to make planetary delivery.