Example sentences for: hanging

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

  • The OED incorrectly attributes the initial use of dementia to Philippe Pinel in 1806: the word was first used in an English text in 1592 by Richard Cosin, Member of Parliament, in defense of the hanging of a conspirator against the monarchy.

  • Indeed, I feel that the competition process has been successful in ways that I would not have ever envisioned when I was hanging out in legal services programs in Iowa and New Jersey in the seventies, eighties and nineties.

  • Lady Yang was known as a famous beauty, and her portrait, hanging in her former dressing room, attests to that.

  • He did stints in tony asylums, hanging out with Robert Lowell, and in dismal state institutions, where he was subjected daily to insulin-induced comas.

  • The seventh century El Moallaqah or “The Hanging Church” gets its name from its location — it was built between two towers of the Roman gate and claims to be the oldest church in Egypt as its foundations date from the fourth century.


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