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hangs about

vb. (en-third-person singularhang about)

Usage examples of "hangs about".

An air of misery and waste hangs about it, along with a quality Jack might define, if he stopped to consider it, as slippage.

He knows that if he hangs about too long, he could attract attention, so he’.

He knows that if he hangs about too long, he could attract attention, so he'll wait ten minutes.

But this is not so, for though in autumn the roke, as here in Norfolk we name ground fog, hangs about the house at nightfall, and in seasons of great flood the water has been known to pour into the stables at the back of it, yet being built on sand and gravel there is no healthier habitation in the parish.