HUNG in a Sentence

Learn HUNG 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.
244 example sentences for HUNG, such as:
1. She hung her head in shame.
2. I hung my coat behind the door.
3. She's really hung up on that guy.
4. A picture of flowers hung on the wall.
5. Her key hung on a string around her neck.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HUNG
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He hung back, and she came out alone and paused within a few yards of him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Not for the world would he have made a sign to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  Ethan paused also, affecting to fumble for the peg on which he hung his coat and cap.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
5  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
6  There was really, even now, no tangible evidence to the contrary; but since the previous night a vague dread had hung on his sky-line.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
7  A mournful peace hung on the fields, as though they felt the relaxing grasp of the cold and stretched themselves in their long winter sleep.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  She's a pauper that's hung onto us all after her father'd done his best to ruin us.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  The sky, swollen with the clouds that announce a thaw, hung as low as before a summer storm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  Her voice was raised questioningly, as though she hung on Gerald's assent to her plan, a mere formality but one dear to the heart of Gerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  She saw Honey's awkward wigglings and heard her silly titters as she hung onto boys' arms, and the thought stung her to new rage, rage at herself, at Ashley, at the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly acquired matronly dignity, hung on his arm and the entire personnel of Tara, black and white, turned out to see Ashley off to the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
2  The smell of death and decay hung over the town.
3  Shutters usually come in pairs and are hung like doors on hinges.
4  A picture of flowers hung on the wall.
5  He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him.
6  I hung my coat behind the door.
7  Philip hung his coat on a hook behind the door.
8  I hung his wet trousers on the radiator, but they're not dry yet.
9  He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign - a hung parliament.
10  The hut hung half over the edge of the precipice.
11  A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
12  She's really hung up on that guy.
13  She hung her head in shame.
14  A heavy gold necklace hung around her neck.
15  Her key hung on a string around her neck.