hung

Example Sentences

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For decades, mole catchers in the countryside have hung their carcasses on fences to be counted for payment and as evidence of their trapping prowess.

From BBC

He remarked that “the desolation of the city, and the mystery that hung over it, all created an interest higher, if possible, than I had ever felt among the ruins of the Old World.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In an interview with Nick Robinson for the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, Polanski said he wanted to be in a position where his party could "potentially hold the balance of power" in a hung parliament.

From BBC

We’d hung a white curtain across it providing a kind of screen while letting in light.

From Literature

Maybe that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster that hung over us.

From Literature