Example sentences for: hung

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

  • The tone is very different from, for example, that of the show of Socialist Realist paintings I saw a few years ago at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, which approached the subject in the usual pop-camp way--nearly every picture looked like a parody, and any of them could have been hung very nicely next to Andy Warhol's Mao . But the paintings in Matthew Cullerne Bown's book, grave and dignified and often eager to claim descent from the likes of Rembrandt, would be affronted by the pairing.

  • He took the words of his longtime pal Murray Foss at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank where he hung his hat for many years, into account; and the words of Mrs. Wiggins, who ran the cafeteria at the AEI; and the thoughts of Alan Greenspan or the head of Goldman, Sachs; and valued them entirely on their merits to him, not on the basis of how much press or money the speaker had.

  • We're used to hearing tales of witnesses, informants, or whistle-blowers who are urged to come forward and then, after they do, are "hung out to dry"--i.e.

  • Describing Indonesian military intervention in West Kalimantan, an Indonesian-controlled territory on the island of Borneo plagued by ethnic and religious conflict, the paper said that "armed mobs paraded the severed heads of their victims through villages" and that "the bridges in one town had been hung with the dismembered parts of the victims' bodies."

  • She hung it on the wall at the Maine compound, but things got ugly shortly thereafter …


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