How to Use hang together in a Sentence

hang together

verb
  • Our first chance to hang together was on Willie Nelson’s bus at Farm Aid.
    — Katey Clifford, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The casein network needs to be flexible enough to move but rigid enough that the cheese hangs together.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
  • To make these measurements all hang together, changes in the timing of events have to be matched by changes in the position of those events in space.
    — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The acting is good, while the story fails to really hang together.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2022
  • But the tiny margins also create a lot of pressure to hang together.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • At the gallery, they have been hung together in one piece, measuring seventeen feet high by sixty-eight feet long.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • The central conceit of The Killer is an intriguing one, but nothing here ever hangs together.
    — EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Much like on the processing tests, the 14th Gen 18-inch laptops hung together, and the Legion impressed despite its smaller size and lower price.
    — PCMAG, 24 July 2024
  • But nothing in Lost City would really hang together without its main pair, whose chemistry movies like this inevitably live or die on.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • If the writers hang together, many execs expect the work stoppage to last until mid-September, when the Emmys are supposed to air, if not further out.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • This kit from Modular Closets includes three sections that can be be hung together or separately for more rod and shelf space.
    — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Most people recognize faces not from specific features, such as a unique beauty spot or the shape of a nose, but by processing them as a whole, taking in how all the features hang together.
    — Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Here, the anxieties of the past all hang together in louche reconciliation.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The singer, 31, posted a handful of photos on her Instagram Stories Thursday, showcasing some of their low-key hangs together.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • What makes this patchwork of styles, tones and time periods hang together is the thread of psychological realism that runs through every scene.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The movie doesn’t always hang together, a consequence, perhaps, of the story first being envisioned to serve a Sparks concept album performed live.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In March, those yields spiked, rekindling fears that the eurozone’s various members wouldn’t hang together through the coronavirus crisis.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That condition, which is good for both countries, may return — if the inchoate coalition formed to oust Netanyahu can hang together and pass an impending confidence vote in the Knesset.
    — Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • Despite its indestructible book and score and several strong performances, the show Wolfe has built never quite hangs together.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Works in the same series, sometimes in different media, are hung together in discrete arrangements.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Often that missing element is the conceptual discipline that allows a piece of theater, even when set on an empty stage, to hang together and score its points.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But atmospherics will only get you so far when your story doesn’t hang together, though some flimsy bunny business in the final act at least attempts to explain the enigma.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • If Democrats do manage to hang together, there is little Republicans can ultimately do to prevent the bill from passing.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • If these five justices hang together against ghost guns, that won’t be a particularly unexpected plot twist.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • She was fascinated at how the whole world hung together so tenuously, at how tentative truces allowed life to proceed.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But the show never quite hangs together, creating a whole that’s substantially less than the individual parts.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As with the previous 21 months, Democrats will need to hang together to pass any legislation, bipartisan or otherwise.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The personal and political hang together in a tight and satisfying braid.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
  • This particular storm’s strength and organization enabled it to hang together for many hours, helped by the fact that that there were no other storm systems nearby, Anderson-Frey says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Instead of information and context, the viewer encounters beautiful works hung together in ways that keep the histories between them as abstract as most of the art itself.
    — K. L. H. Wells, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024

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