Use hung in a sentence
Sentences ending with hung
- If you do not speak truth, you shall be whipped again, and then hung. [11]
- If I had my way I'd have a lot of those vagabonds hung. [8]
- You wants to keep 'way fum de water as much as you kin, en don't run no resk, 'kase it's down in de bills dat you's gwyne to git hung. [5]
- Pomfrette heard, and he drew himself together, his jaws shutting with ferocity, and his hand flying to the belt where his voyageur's case-knife hung. [11]
- Twice have I go to see murderers hung. [11]
- The Egyptian shuddered, for this imperial nod showed him by how slender a thread his life hung. [10]
- She took a few steps into it, and while he was searching in the table drawer she halted before the great chimney over which, against the panel, an old bell-mouthed musket hung. [9]
- John was both enraged and scared by this dastardly attack; the teeth of the enemy went through the cloth and met; and there he hung. [4]
- Behind it were commendable trees, from one of which a swing was hung. [11]
- One hand was clinched upon that portion of his breast where the portrait hung. [11]
Short sentences using hung
- He's been hung since. [9]
- So much hung on this. [11]
- So it has hung there. [11]
- Smoke hung above her rail. [9]
- Tears hung at her eyes. [11]
- A shadow hung between them. [11]
- They ought to be hung! [8]
- They hung Mr. [9]
Sentences containing hung two or more times
- Some of the stalactites that hung from it looked like great icicles, and some of them looked like damp, grey clothes hung out to dry. [10]
- Still, he hung it out himself, and not only hung it out, but thought it was a good point in Shelley's favor. [5]
- Children were perched in the shells and lotus-flowers that hung from the painted rafters; and from between the pillars, that were hung with cloudy transparent tissues, they threw roses and violets down on the company. [10]
- His brown hair hung over his forehead, his thick, closely-trimmed moustache straggled in thin lines over his cheeks, his doublet had grown too large, and his stockings did not fit snugly as usual, but hung in wrinkles on his powerful legs. [10]
- The frocks was hung along the wall, and before them was a curtain made out of calico that hung down to the floor. [5]
- Cages of large birds from the Indies, fruits, corn, fishes, grapes, hung in the trees, players perched in the branches discoursed sweet music, and poets recited their verses from rustic bridges or on platforms with weapons and armour hung trophy-wise on ragged staves. [11]
More example sentences with the word hung in them
- One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
- If I'd been you, I'd rather have hung --ah, sure! [11]
- The arms which yesterday--only yesterday--had clasped her passionately and hungrily to his breast now hung inert at his side. [11]
- An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. [5]
- No doubt Cauchon would take it for granted that she hung them there out of sinful love for the fairies. [5]
- It was hung with various garlands, and Melissa, before she prayed and anointed the stone, examined them with eye and hand. [10]
- A huge chandelier with prisms hung over the flowers at the centre of the table, which sparkled with glass and silver, while dishes of vermilion and yellow fruits relieved the whiteness of the cloth. [9]
- Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
- She was standing with her hands behind her, her back against a great walnut trunk, the crusted branches of which hung over the bluff. [9]
- Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
- Kit accompanied them with a little bundle, which he had hung in the carriage when they left home, and had not forgotten since--the bird in his old cage--just as she had left him. [12]
- From queer old-fashioned windows along the curve projected boxes of bright flowers, and over the edge of one of these boxes hung the head and shoulders of a cat--asleep. [5]
- Perhaps the villain who hung it to my chain may buy it back again. [10]
- When that picture, which I am daily expecting, arrives, I shall have it framed and hung by the side of Herring's picture of Plenipotentiary, the horse I saw win the Derby in 1834. [6]
- The flaxen hair, which bristled around his head and hung over his broad, ugly face, gave him so unkempt and imbecile an appearance that it was repulsive to the almoner, and he harshly asked where he had been loitering. [10]
- You have hung where you are for two days, and now I shall have you whipped. [11]
- Ay, I know what you would say: that Sir Joshua's portrait hangs above, executed but the year after, and hung at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy. [9]
- Gamaliel knew in what peril Orion stood, and the fate that hung over the noble maiden who had once given him the costliest of gems, and afterwards entrusted to him a portion of her fortune. [10]
- Paula now understood what hung over her. [10]
- The old "hangings" were yet preserved in the chambers, faded, but still showing their rich patterns,--properly entitled to their name, for they were literally hung upon flat wooden frames like trellis-work, which again were secured to the naked partitions. [6]
- But her thoughts were uncontrollable, she was drawn continually to the edge of that precipice which hung over the waters whence they had dragged her, never knowing when the vertigo would seize her. [9]
- Along the roadside were bayberry-bushes, hung all over with bright red coral pendants in autumn and far into the winter. [6]
- Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon, than of relief of their bodily infirmities, from making too many calls, as they sometimes attempted to do. [6]
- But as they went on he felt that she hung heavy on his arm and could only lift her little feet with the greatest difficulty. [10]
- Their admiration for well-grown trees went so far, that Xerxes, finding on his way to Greece a singularly beautiful tree, hung ornaments of gold upon its branches. [10]
- He could not well have helped it, I hung with such homage on his words and so plainly showed that I felt honored by his notice. [5]
- They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs. [5]
- Stuffs, garments, tapestries, weapons hung over the backs of the chairs, or lay on chests, tables and the stone-floor. [10]
- But how can we, when we have been intoxicated with many things; when we are drunk with success and experience; have hung on the fringe of unrighteousness; and know the world backward, and ourselves mercilessly? [11]
- Just as a wave poises at its height before breaking upon the shore, it hung at every pulse-beat, and then seemed to fall over with a sickening thud. [11]
- A white cloth was wound round his head, the ends of which hung down to the shoulders. [10]
- The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
- The entire floor was strewed with rose-leaves, and the room lighted by many lamps which were hung against the smooth, white, stucco walls. [10]
- A lamp which was still burning hung from the ceiling, but Frau Ratzer raised the tallow candle she had carried to the door, threw its light upon her face, and nodded approvingly. [10]
- The daintiest lace was hung over the frosted trees. [10]
- Sir Ozana's saddle was hung about with leather hat boxes, and every time he overcame a wandering knight he swore him into my service and fitted him with a plug and made him wear it. [5]
- Around her neck was hung a heavy rope of pearls. [9]
- The supreme judge was distinguished by the possession of the longest and handsomest plume in his head-dress, and a costly sapphire amulet, which, suspended by a gold chain, hung on his breast. [10]
- One of them was "disfigured with a great skin, his head hung around with little skins of weasels and other vermin, with a crownlet of feathers on his head, painted as ugly as the devil. [4]
- Another, and her warm hand clasped the pale, moist, and wrinkled one which hung by the horse's neck. [11]
- Jack's and Edith's wardrobes, and some pieces of ancestral furniture that he pointed out as belonging to his wife, were removed before the auction flag was hung out. [4]
- But on the walls of the little dining-room hung a Copley and two Stuarts. [9]
- All over the walls hung the little prints and engravings, framed in wreaths of moss and artificial flowers, or in elaborate square frames made of pasteboard. [4]
- Going to the wall, he hung up the rifle; then he came to the fire and stood holding out his hands to the blaze. [11]
- They hung upon Venters with a mute observance, and he found hope in that. [13]
- Numerous lamps of various and singular shapes, filled with Kiki oil, hung against the walls. [10]
- Generations of Puritan Vanes (whose descendant alone had harassed poor Sarah Austere) were in his blood; and there they hung in the long gallery of Time, mutely but sternly forbidding when he raised his hand to the stem. [9]
- Only--it's much too valuable--" I smiled.... Miss Allsop deftly undid the clasp and hung it around Maude's neck. [9]
- And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate of the schoolyard instead of playing with his comrades. [5]
- This sometimes brought us up four or five apples at once, which hung on the blade like the flock of ducks that Baron Munchausen's musket pierced with the ramrod. [10]
- Said they'd hev us hung, an' Clark, too. [9]
- The bridle-rein hung upon the wrist of the notary's palsied left hand, and in his right hand he carried the long sabre of an artillery officer, which he had picked up on the battlefield. [11]
- She had taken up the tongs that hung by it, and was about to put it out, when she heard a gentle tap at the house-door. [10]
- The rector hung up the receiver, opened the door of the booth and mopped his brow, for the heat was stifling. [9]
- Then we hung up our signal lantern, and judged that we was free and safe once more. [5]
- Her sails hung unfilled, her streamers were drooping, she had neither side-wheel nor stern-wheel; still she moved on, stately, in serene triumph, as if with her own life. [6]
- She 173 looked under the chair over which hung her clothes, even behind the dresses and the Indian deerskin cape hanging on the door. [11]
- One hand lay under her head, hidden among the thick dark brown hair, the other clasped unconsciously a little amulet of green stone, which hung round her neck. [10]
- The doctor gave Ulrich many an admonitory word, his wife kissed him, and as a parting remembrance hung a small gold ring, with a glittering stone, about his neck, and old Rahel gave him a kerchief full of freshly-baked cakes to eat on his way. [10]
- Skins hung along two sides, with bullet-holes and knife-holes showing: of the great grey wolf, the red puma, the bronze hill-lion, the beaver, the bear, and the sable; and in one corner was a huge pile of them. [11]
- This apartment, with two mighty feather-beds, was hung about with all manner of stuffy family clothes, and had in one end a vast cavern for a fire. [4]
- A day or two following the return to Hartford, Clemens received a letter from General Grant, in which he wrote: "Li Hung Chang is the most powerful and most influential Chinaman in his country. [5]
- Her hair, too--then--would trip her up, if it hung loose. [11]
- Their path lay towards it, for Pango Dooni hid in the hills, where the sun hung a roof of gold above his stronghold. [11]
- I had not touched either for a year, and now I could see that my fingers, as they closed on the food nervously, were thin and bloodless, and I realized that my clothes hung loose upon my person. [11]
- There were people, too; brawny men, with long, coarse, uncombed hair that hung down over their faces and made them look like animals. [5]
- His pages are too much like those artists' studios all hung round with sketches and "bits" of scenery. [6]
- Then he went to the window, and as he looked through the parted curtains out upon the water--the room hung over the edge of the cliff-he bound his own shoulder. [11]
- This she handed to the Syrian, desiring him to wrench from its setting a large emerald which hung from the middle. [10]
- But farther over to the right, where Cairo lay, there hung a bluish mist, palpable and delicate, out of which emerged the vast pyramids of Cheops; and beside it the smiling inscrutable Sphinx faced the changeless centuries. [11]
- He hung on to the doctrines as well as the dollars of the dads; it was a real thing with him. [8]
- It frightened him to see how the huge masses of rock and old forest-growths hung over the home below. [6]
- Everybody went there to see a bowlder which hung suspended over the stream in the narrow canon. [4]
- She took him to her own chamber, and, still holding him by the hand as if she feared to lose him for an instant, gathered together the little stock she had, and hung her basket on her arm. [12]
- We hadn't anything to do, and time hung heavy. [5]
- Melissa had hearkened to both counselors with eager ear, and both hung anxiously on her lips, while, as if taken out of herself, she gazed with panting bosom into the empty air. [10]
- The cambric dress, to be sure, was still no longer than the tops of her ankles and the hair still hung in a heavy braid down her back. [9]
- The man was to be hung, not strangled. [11]
- A man ought to be hung for horse-stealin', but this was different. [11]
- Privately, and unknown to any one, I painted my great picture, "Heidelberg Castle Illuminated"--my first really important work in oils--and had it hung up in the midst of a wilderness of oil-pictures in the Art Exhibition, with no name attached to it. [5]
- One thing led to another, and one thing, as it were, hung upon another, until they all got to be part of the scheme. [11]
- At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
- After a certain time of which he had no cognizance he found himself under the glaring arc-light that hung over Main Street before the Pelican Hotel, in front of what was known as the ladies' entrance. [9]
- We filled the three stockings hung by the great fireplace. [9]
- It seems as though it were the union of voices innumerable rather than the seabreeze, which flutters the pennons and flags which wave from every house and arch, and sways the garlands hung across the street. [10]
- No sooner had this thought become clear to him, than he started up, examined a number of daggers which hung, carefully arranged, above his bed, and laid the sharpest on the little table before him. [10]
- The walls of this fine chamber were hung with Flanders tapestry, and I can to this day see the pictures which were so skilfully woven into it. [10]
- How the poor thing had trembled and moaned after the executioner's assistant hung the heavy stone around her neck! [10]
- The finest of these were certain hangings of fine tissue and of many colors, which hung over the wide opening between the great guest chamber and that next to it. [10]
- The lives of these people hung in truth upon a slender thing--the bearing of one man. [9]
- A lot of these hung along the walls and modified the dark, just toned it down enough to make it dismal. [5]
- The great fire there was cold, and the pots and pans hung neatly on their hooks, untouched that day. [9]
- In the entry there was a smell of fresh apples, and wolf and fox skins hung about. [2]
- And they sat there by the light of a flickering candle, with the door bolted and a cassock hung across the window, lest by any chance this uncommon thing should be seen. [11]
- Their way brought them down Brampton Street, past a house with great iron dogs on the lawn, so imposing and cityfied that he hung back and asked who lived there. [9]
- Garlands, stripped of their leaves and flowers, still crowned their heads and hung over their shoulders. [10]
- They had left their first retreat, and were now seated among the branches of a large elm which hung far over the lake. [5]
- Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it. [5]
- Tablets hung on the white marble walls, inscribed with the thanksgivings or vows of those who had been healed. [10]
- Every inch of the walls was hung with red curtains. [11]
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