be left hanging

Moon looked up with the others, her question left hanging in the air.

How strange that something should have been left hanging here all those years.

According to one of several accounts, she was left hanging all night.

The last person left hanging without touching the ground would win.

And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there.

There was not a picture left hanging in any of the offices.

Then too, the ruling left hanging some larger social questions and perhaps another legal issue.

The protective suit she had left hanging for years is finally used.

I suppose some of it could have been left hanging around.

If they can't do that, lone electrons are left hanging around.

The sorceress pulls back the left hanging and scrapes one of the paired windows clear of theice for a moment.

You're sort of left hanging, aren't you?

The play lacks a final resolution per se; the audience is somewhat "left hanging."

When not being used, the ladder is stowed away (usually rolled up) rather than left hanging.

"I'm left hanging after we won the World Series," he recalled.

"I was kind of left hanging, and then finally she said yes," Mr. Sikowitz said.

'Being left hanging on without explanation of what's happening', that's your frustration.

But for today's patients, he said, "we're sort of left hanging."

As it is, it seems half a musical, left hanging in midair, seeking a final tonic chord.

He still loses his balance though, and falls partway down the structure, getting left hanging on for life.