HANG in a Sentence

Learn HANG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
304 example sentences for HANG, such as:
1. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
2. Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself.
3. Give a fool rope enough and he will hang himself.
4. There's a peg near the door to hang your coat on.
5. Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HANG
hang
 v.  kill by hanging
 v.  suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He went out into the passage to hang up his coat and pull off his wet boots.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Ethan went out into the passage to hang up his wet garments.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  You could make him apologize for being a cur and forgive him so sweetly that he would hang around trying to kiss you a second time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  The doctor says that if they do hang him it will be the first good honest job the Yankees ever did, but then, I don't know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Perhaps till they hang him, but maybe they won't be able to prove the killing on him, after all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  However, it doesn't seem to bother the Yankees whether folks are guilty or not, so long as they can hang somebody.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  But Hugh Elsing told me he didn't think they'd hang Captain Butler because the Yankees think he does know where the money is and just won't tell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  They can hang me higher than Haman for all you care.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  "Thank you, but they may not hang you till it's too late to pay the taxes," she said with a sudden malice that matched his own, and she meant it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  They could and did imprison citizens for any cause, or no cause, seize their property, hang them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  He warn't scared of the English government when they wanted to hang him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  It's the realization that if all of us don't hang together and submerge our own small hates, we can't expect to beat the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  If anyone sees you, you'll hang as well as the rest of us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  Dave had given verdict, "What these mouthy youngsters that hang around the pool-room need is universal military training."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
2  Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
3  Work can get tough in the middle of a term but hang on in there and it'll be OK.
4  Bored youths hang around outside looking for trouble.
5  He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.
6  Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.
7  The film was taken by a camera mounted on a hang - glider.
8  In this new shape, it can accommodate molecules called G-proteins, which hang around inside the cell.
9  If he is found guilty, he will almost certainly hang.
10  Don't fling your clothes about on the chair; hang them up.
11  If the opposition party can hang together over the next six months, they might just stand a chance of being elected.
12  Deep love person hide the heart does not hang mouth.
13  There's a peg near the door to hang your coat on.
14  Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself.
15  Give a fool rope enough and he will hang himself.