dangle

dangle bright prospects before a person

saucepans dangled from a rail.

the defence portfolio could be the carrot to dangle before him.

A kite dangles from a telephone wire.

The leaves dangled in the wind.

Huge earrings dangled from her ears.

It’s the biggest financial incentive ever dangled before British footballers.

And then Simon saw that what she had cradled, that which now dangled from an outflung hand, was a doll… a doll made from reeds and leaves and twining stems of grass.

He dangles wildly upside-down for a moment, arms windmilling, then gets his hands pressed firmly against the opposite wall.The rat scurries off, pissed.