Example Sentences

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It’s not as if this plot is a dangler.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2018

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From The Verge • Nov. 5, 2018

A dangler on the edges of adult conversations, I knew, even at ten years old, that married women did not come back to spend the night at their parents’ home.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2015

A thoughtlessly placed dangler can confuse the reader or slow them down, and occasionally it can lure them into a ludicrous interpretation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

The phrase like Alice is a dangler because it’s attached to the wrong thing: Frans face-lift.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner