Example sentences for: hung

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  • Total RNA was isolated using guanidine thiocyanate extraction and 15 μg of the total RNA was analyzed by Northern hybridization as described previously [ 16 ] . cDNA probes used in hybridization were human fibronectin [ 33 ] , α1(I) collagen [ 34 ] , or cytokeratin 14 cDNA (Hung Tseng, unpublished results).

  • Clinton hung on, correctly calculating that a mixture of brazenness, legal equivocation and personal charm would see him through."

  • Thus, kick the bucket is listed in the category E29e Pork (because of its presumed etymology, Slaughtered pigs are hung by the heels from the bucket or beam) while go west appears under G12e Sunset, bite the dust (questionably defined as brought low) appears at C10f Winning and losing the battle, buy the farm (which I cannot find in the OED ) is listed under E7a Land (where it is labeled as an Americanism, confuting my understanding that it originated with the R.A.F., early in WWII), and cash in your chips/ checks goes under K77c Roulette (which might be all right for a British English classification, but I think that Americans would expect to find it at K81 Poker ).

  • The apartments beyond are hung with Flemish tapestries recording Charles V’s Tunis Expedition of 1535, one of them showing an upside-down map of the Mediterranean.

  • The Café de Flore round the corner has hung on to its intellectual tradition more than the others, perhaps because of its rather ideologically confused history.


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