Example sentences for: hanged

How can you use “hanged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • “Sir John Cochrane, being engaged in Argyle's Rebellion against James the Second [of Scotland--that is, James I of England], was taken prisoner after a desperate resistance, and condemned to be hanged.

  • But while he's thinking it over, Osmin goes into a paroxysm of bloodthirst, demanding that the four be first decapitated, then hanged, then impaled, then burnt at the stake, then tied up and drowned, and then flogged:

  • In Rome, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano defended the Dominican order's campaign to beatify Girolamo Savonarola, the fire-and-brimstone monk who was excommunicated, hanged, and burned in Florence 500 years ago.

  • Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."

  • These are crisscrossed by numerous narrow alleys called “wynds” and separated by open spaces where markets were held, royal decrees were heard, and criminals were hanged in front of large and enthusiastic crowds.


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