Voorbeelden van hangers-on

• The singing is accompanied by some dancing, a few musical instruments being played by the courtesan's hangers-on, and unceasing rounds of liquor.

• Microbes are thereby hangers-on to receptor molecules that are used for physiological functions of the cell.

• There was a small collection of hangers-on.

• The trouble is to get this through to certain of the more unruly hangers-on who sometimes turn up at occasions of this kind.

• These bookmakers have touts and runners and hangers-on and that is the element which causes disturbance.

• That will immediately control all those spivs, hangers-on and racecourse touts, because the bookmaker would have to register and pay for all his employees.

• They can encourage hangers-on, of many political beliefs or of none.

• There were regrettable disturbances, caused not so much by the hunger marchers as by the camp-followers and the hangers-on.

• In that way you get a sort of population of mere hangers-on.

• They are not mere hangers-on of the wage earners but are human beings in their own right.

• Less should be spent on the middleman and the hangers-on in this great industry and more on the modernisation of its equipment.

• It is awfully easy to talk vaguely about a mass of hangers-on doing nothing.

• If we are not —if we are regarded as contemptible and unhelpful hangers-on, or just as mendicants—our voice will be heard less and less.

• I examine propaganda of all kinds, including that of the hangers-on of all political parties.

• We have all heard the names—scroungers, hangers-on, lazy and so forth.