PENDENT in a Sentence

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1. From bent wood pendent lights to sculptural steel plant walls, their portfolio is chalk full of inventive and inspiring pieces.

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 Meanings and Examples of PENDENT
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pendent
 a.  supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging
Classic Sentence:
1  The dog was throttled off; his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
3  Beside it hung a huge, grimy oil painting representative of some flowers and fruit, half a water melon, a boar's head, and the pendent form of a dead wild duck.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  Then comes the pool; pendent gray moss and brackish waters appear, and forests filled with wildfowl.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  From bent wood pendent lights to sculptural steel plant walls, their portfolio is chalk full of inventive and inspiring pieces.