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  • verb Present participle of dang.

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Examples

  • And I'm with you in "danging" raider girl, as I trot off to bed singing "The Lord is good to me ..."

    The Botany of Desire (copy) ____Maggie 2008

  • Nys and Vantornout traded attacks and counters, with Pauwels danging just out of contention.

    Sven Nys wins 2010 GP Rouwmoer 2010

  • There were rumours of a mini-series to resolve the plot threads left danging from the last episode a couple of years back, but these came to nothing and the creator-producer has said he'd rather not do that.

    Setting the Record Straight: HBO and A Song of Ice and Fire Adam Whitehead 2008

  • The reviveLITE will certainly make you feel confident enough to sleep with your foot out of the covers and danging over the edge of the bed.

    reviveLITE charges your iPhone, wards off monsters - SlipperyBrick.com 2008

  • Writing anything that PatCA from the internet doesn't agree with: bad grammar on the level of comma splices and danging modifiers.

    How the Edwards campaign blundered into hiring those bloggers. Ann Althouse 2007

  • The old saw was thtat state delegates were highly susceptible to manipulation by congressmen, senators, governors, and mayors — now danging, now withholding patronage to delegates to get them to agree to run for a berth at the national convention “uncommitted,” whence power brokers could cash them in for a candidate desperate to go over the top in exchange for handsome consideration.

    Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Before the Storm, Pt. 2 2006

  • The sister was half-lying on the couch, stockinged feet danging over a padded arm, wineglass on the coffee table, remote control in one hand.

    Shiver Jackson, Lisa 2006

  • I know how to reach him, but I keep danging that envelope in front of my mind wondering .. what are the moral consequences?

    breakthedark Diary Entry breakthedark 2002

  • Stroke, pneumonia and various viral infections accounted for about a dozen, but every other file she picked up told the same story, the words danging discordantly and relentlessly like a cracked bell chimed by a cracked bell-ringer.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Why should anything dreadful happen because a bit of twanging and danging goes an?

    The Secret of Moon Castle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1978

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