Example sentences for: hanged

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

  • The order played a great part in Cretan uprisings against the Turks — monks were hanged in 1821 — and more recently against the Germans in WWII when it was a rallying point for British soldiers and native partisans.

  • Three were acquitted, two committed suicide before the trials began, 12 were hanged, and the rest received prison terms ranging from ten years to life.

  • 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."

  • Egyptians hanged the two Mossad agents behind the campaign.

  • The Greyfriars Church was closely linked with the Protestant Covenanters, and many of those hanged in the Grassmarket are buried here.


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