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Example sentences for "hung"

Lexicographically close words:
hundredweight; hundredweights; hundret; hundreth; hunerd; hunged; hunger; hungered; hungering; hungers
  1. Noble young Khamis, on the other hand, did not stint his appreciation of it, and youthful Abdullah and Mussoud hung about Selim as though he were some suddenly-discovered hero.

  2. When, blushing at their impertinence, I resented the rough behaviour, they bound and scourged me, and they laughed and mocked me as the tortured flesh gave way and hung in gory tatters, and the red blood dyed my limbs crimson.

  3. His hair, though woolly, hung below his shoulders in a thousand fine braids, adorned with scores of fine red, yellow, and white beads.

  4. The carpenters, who came after, had great axes in their hands, and planes and adzes hung at their sides.

  5. Some had good hides which they had bound round their bodies; and many were clad in frocks[15], and had quivers and bows hung to their girdles.

  6. At the moment that he fell, the lance broke, and the Frenchman seized the mace[6] that hung at his right side, and struck the other Englishman a blow that completely fractured his skull.

  7. They wore short[7] and close hauberks, and helmets that over hung their garments[8].

  8. These were a pair of strong wicker hampers, which were joined by a pack-saddle, and hung across a horse's back.

  9. It is the belief in the district that Whitfield was gibbeted alive, that he hung for several days in agony, and that his cries were heartrending, until a mail coachman passing that way put him out of his misery by shooting him.

  10. The helmet was afterwards hung aloft, as a commemorating badge of sacrilegious temerity.

  11. In these open chimneys, hams, legs of beef, flitches of bacon, and whole carcases of mutton were hung to dry for winter consumption.

  12. Dod of England, who was hung for forgery; people no doubt liked his preaching.

  13. You are to be hung until you are dead for violating the law of the new testament, and may the Lord have mercy on you for violating his law of grace.

  14. They had been moving slowly; they came to a place where a great tree hung over the road, shadowing it; and there they stopped, as by one impulse.

  15. What was the tragic destiny that hung over them--the Nemesis that gripped them, and forced them to take such a chance?

  16. Meanwhile, however, time was passing, and the prospect of her approaching confinement hung over them like a black thunder-cloud.

  17. They had come from the wilds of Palestine and the deserts of Northern Africa; they had argued and wondered and feared in Gothic cloisters, in New England meeting-houses; and the shadow of their souls hung over him still.

  18. When water got in at the sides of the tent and wet all these objects, and the bedclothing hung over the floor and got into them, it was trying to the temper to have to rummage there.

  19. There were times when Thyrsis, too, in spite of his lack of intuition, felt the atmosphere of evil which hung about some of these old farms.

  20. It was perhaps half a mile long; the virgin forest hung about it like a great green curtain, and the shadows of the blue mountains seemed as if painted upon its surface.

  21. After having paid its price into the Treasury of the Church, he hung the jewel, as an ex-voto, on the altar of the chapel of the Virgin, where he often went to pray for the poor mason.

  22. Clusters of jewelled decorations hung from button-holes, plaques of diamonds glittered in the lapel of one or two black coats, a heavy commander's cross sparkled on the starched front of a general with a red cravat.

  23. At the house of the first citizen there was a little fir-tree in a wooden box, from whose branches hung oranges, sweetmeats, and toys.

  24. The gown did not meet, but it hung about her in clumsy folds; the water made her hair lifeless and dull; and her skin was gray.

  25. A year later Hermia was sitting by her library fire one afternoon when the butler threw back the tapestry that hung over the door and announced Helen Simms.

  26. I never took a woman out of the streets and hung jewels upon her and adored her for her empty beauty, and with a certain class of women I have never exchanged a dozen words since my callow youth.

  27. The walls were hung with cloth of gold, and the ceiling was a splendid picture of Nautch girls dancing in the pleasure palace of an Indian prince.

  28. About her throat hung a silver chain of Roman workmanship, and around her waist a girdle of similar but heavier links.

  29. Riots soon took place in Boston, and Secretary Oliver, who was appointed by the British government as Stamp Distributor, was hung in effigy.

  30. The furniture had been removed, though the family picture still hung in the blue room, and the harpsichord stood in the passage way to be abused by the children who passed through.

  31. He was hung in effigy, a drunken crowd carrying the effigy through the Town House, even while the Governor and Council were in session.

  32. Some of the wisest and purest Whigs of the time hung their heads in shame because of the passage of measures so unjustifiable, and never ceased to speak of them in terms of reprobation.

  33. Day glimmered in the east, and the white Moon Hung like a vapor in the cloudless sky.

  34. The sun burned scorchingly down, and waves of heat trembled vaporously along the valley, while over the dusty highway small flocks of white and lemon butterflies hung drifting on lazy wings.

  35. High in the top of the walnut a shattered branch had hung in a hair balance since the great storm had stricken it.

  36. It was to Kenneth Thornton as if there were sunlight in one corner of that cobwebbed room with its unwashed windows and its stale smells, and elsewhere hung the murk of little hope.

  37. His life hung on the correctness of that assumption, but the hazard was a part of the game.

  38. For a few seconds more Thornton stood rocking on unsteady legs, then, with a final and supreme effort, he stooped and lifted the heavy weight that hung sagging like one newly dead and not yet rigid.

  39. As the menacing face hung over him, Maggard saw it school itself slowly into a hard composure and read a peremptory warning for silence in the eyes.

  40. Maggard's coat and pistol-holster hung at the headboard of his bed.

  41. Witness Number One was Sim Squires, and as though his tongue had been stricken with sudden dumbness and his limbs with paralysis, he hung back when he had been called.

  42. One of them was because he's a sober young man thet's got things hung up.

  43. About the empty hearth of its main room men, uncouthly dressed and unbarbered, sat, and the smoke from their pipes hung stale and heavy.

  44. Those who did not "have things hung up" felt the pinch of actual suffering, and faces in ill-lighted and more illy ventilated cabins became morose and pessimistic.

  45. Hence the necessity of transferring them, or the inhuman sentence of death must be passed upon them, not by being hung by the neck until they are dead, but by being tortured to death by fire and brimstone.

  46. It should also be hung by butts, or fastened by a bar, running vertically across the centre of the door, and confined by staples at each end.

  47. He hung a cover over the single window, locked the door, and lay down, with Toto at his feet, and at his side his rapier and pistols.

  48. It played at being officer and prisoner, built and tore down bastilles, and at last won attention and a law all to itself when some young ruffians hung one of their number in good earnest for an aristocrat.

  49. Each of twelve choir-boys had a straw mattress on the floor, and pegs where hung his clothes and the white surplice he wore during service.

  50. Tomas soon filled the nets, which were hung over Francois's shoulders.

  51. This assurance, however, was afterwards interpreted as not binding the civil authorities, and his fate for some time hung in the balance.

  52. Sometimes a bell-shaped ornament is hung by men to a piece of string passed through the lower lip.

  53. From the trusses of the roof hung improvised electric lights, and the children were already seated at the four long tables, where half a dozen ladies were supplying them with enamelled bowls filled with steaming soup.

  54. They hung over the fire while the forest cracked round them, and the flame smarted with the flying snow.

  55. THE STONE The Stone hung on a jutting crag of Purple Hill.

  56. She stood trembling, and as the fingers of one hand hung at her side, they spelled mechanically these words: "It would spoil his life.

  57. Each man had a long hickory stick which served as alpenstock, a bag hung at his side, and tied to his back was his gold-pan, the hollow side in, of course.

  58. Another, and her warm hand clasped the pale, moist, and wrinkled one which hung by the horse's neck.

  59. Just as a wave poises at its height before breaking upon the shore, it hung at every pulse-beat, and then seemed to fall over with a sickening thud.

  60. Yet, as if to cast derision on his strength and great proportions, God or Fate turned his bread to ashes, gave failure into his hands where he hugely grasped at fortune, and hung him about with misery.

  61. With flints he lighted a wick which hung from a wooden bowl of bear's oil; then kneeling, held it above his head, and looked at Pierre.

  62. Drops of sweat hung on his forehead and his hands.

  63. And they sat there by the light of a flickering candle, with the door bolted and a cassock hung across the window, lest by any chance this uncommon thing should be seen.

  64. She hung up the receiver abruptly and went to making memoranda.

  65. She hung about her fireplace contrary to her former plans concerning it.

  66. His pistols hung on the wall where Louada Murilla had suspended them, draped with the ribbons of peace.

  67. From its brake-bars hung the banners won in the past-and-gone victories of twenty years of musters.

  68. His long-tailed coat and plug hat hung from a wooden peg on the side of the barn.

  69. A banner was hung from each ear, and she slouched along at a brisk pace, in order to keep the person of her lord and master within reach of her moist and wistful trunk.

  70. The tables were deserted, except for an old gentleman, who always played his "evening game for a little exercise before bed," but who now stood disconsolately leaning on his cue while his partner hung absorbed over the group of listeners.

  71. I don't think any of us were averse to a digression from the subject which hung over us like a pall and we took his advice and to all appearance, at least, the others put the subject away from them for the remainder of the night.

  72. They had hung on his every word with breathless attention.

  73. The floor was carpeted with Eastern rugs, and the walls, papered a Pompeiian red, were hung with old prints and weapons.

  74. The cap had been lying on the floor directly under White's head, where it partially hung over the divan, and had apparently fallen there when he lay down.

  75. I waited breathlessly to see where his wonderful logic and eloquence would finally lead him and us, while the jury hung in spellbound attention on his every word.

  76. In a corresponding cupboard, with the door wide open, there hung in loose folds a shirt (as I took it to be) of chamois leather.

  77. That odd, muffled voice in which she had spoken to me hung on my mind, as it were.

  78. A frightful little skeleton of a woman hung in a cupboard, behind a glazed door, with this cynical inscription placed above the skull: "Behold the scaffolding on which beauty is built!

  79. Here Ariel lifted a whistle which hung around her neck, and blew the shrill trilling notes with the sound of which I was already familiar as the means of communication between Miserrimus Dexter and his slave.

  80. My signal is already hung out; shall we agree to the conditions and give him yours?

  81. A red and green lantern hung over the doorway leading to your office will be the signal that you agree, and a violet light in your window will be the pledge of Sir Horace Wyvern.

  82. Little cut-out bluebirds hung from the slender handles and bore the names of the individual guests.

  83. A large wooden embroidery hoop was hung from the ceiling over the table and in the ring perched a gaily painted wooden parrot, the kind that rocks back and forth when touched.

  84. Miniature airplanes hung overhead at intervals down the length of the room would add realism.

  85. From the rim of each hoop the cloth strips hung straight down for two or three feet.

  86. Ask the guests to bring something small enough to be hung on a little Christmas tree.

  87. The old-fashioned rooms were hung with smilax and asparagus fern, and in every window stood a pot of flowering fuchsias.

  88. A big blue paper bell such as one sees in front of telephone booths hung over the center of the table.

  89. The entertainment fulfilled the promise of the invitation in this way: A large paper daisy with many petals was hung against the wall and each guest was given a pointer and asked to select a petal at random.

  90. Hung about the neck, these decorations excited much fun.

  91. Wicker basket of June garden pinks (white and pink) with shower of tiny bells hung on pink ribbons above them from the chandelier or ceiling.

  92. A row of red Japanese lanterns hung from the roof all around.

  93. The rooms were hung with blue and golden globes of lights--in reality paper lanterns--sheltering electric bulbs.

  94. The terror of some nameless, undefined apprehension hung over them.

  95. A heavy chain hung from his vest; and his boots glistened and winked in the lamplight.

  96. The haze that had hung over the sea all the morning had deepened, however, into a thick fog; and one wary old fisherman had ventured to warn Campion that he had too much way on, and to keep a good lookout.

  97. Over it, hung from the shoulders a tunic-like drapery of white chiffon.

  98. So she hung up the receiver, but she still showed a troubled expression as she looked questioningly at pretty Patty.

  99. She had chosen a rich white and gold brocaded satin, and the gold lace on the train which hung from her shoulders, made it heavy indeed.

  100. She hung up the receiver, and turned to see Bill looking at her with a peculiar expression on his handsome, honest face.

  101. Patty hung back a moment to say good-bye to Bill, but Daisy forestalled her.

  102. Farnsworth had sent to a theatrical costumer in the city for his garb, and very handsome he looked in a dark green velvet robe that hung in classic folds.

  103. Annie Mitchell knitted a huge comforter in red and white, which the doctor wore in misery for one whole day, out of respect for Annie, and then hung it in his sitting-room as a wall ornament.


  104. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dangling; dependent; falling; flowing; hanging; hung; pendent; pending; pendulous; suspended; swinging; weeping