Example sentences for: hanged

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

  • He actually lived fairly long but was eventually captured, tried, and hanged at the age of forty.

  • “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:

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

  • Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.


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