How to Use hang together in a Sentence

hang together

verb
  • But, for many, what is known for sure is dwarfed by what might possibly hang together.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But the tiny margins also create a lot of pressure to hang together.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 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
  • The acting is good, while the story fails to really hang together.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Our first chance to hang together was on Willie Nelson’s bus at Farm Aid.
    — Katey Clifford, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Everyone is having a good hang together.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • No Breaks is where the mess, the laughter and the honesty all hang together live every afternoon.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And despite two years of hanging together and chopping it up about music, a studio date between the two fell apart at the last minute.
    — Andy Beta, Pitchfork, 31 May 2026
  • Some symptoms would hang together; others were likely to be distractions.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The top-down talent set a worldly tone that the dialogue-heavy, 2-hour 18-minute movie needs to hang together.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
  • If all Republicans hang together, there’s nothing Democrats can do to block it.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • They are often seen hanging together in green jackets near roadside food stalls, waiting for their next online trip request.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2025
  • If these five justices hang together against ghost guns, that won’t be a particularly unexpected plot twist.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The central conceit of The Killer is an intriguing one, but nothing here ever hangs together.
    — EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Here, the anxieties of the past all hang together in louche reconciliation.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • What makes his Ross so compelling — and allows the film to hang together on the whole — is Ford's abundant humanity.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Alba’s brother and his wife were also included in a family photo of the gang hanging together for a festive evening out.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Having these legendary canvases hanging together is a special event.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Works in the same series, sometimes in different media, are hung together in discrete arrangements.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Alba’s brother and his wife were also included in a family photo of the gang hanging together for a festive evening out.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • 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 personal and political hang together in a tight and satisfying braid.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, apart from some janky-looking special effects in the climactic sequence, the whole movie hangs together brilliantly, setting a high standard for the sequels.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025

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