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Example sentences for "hang"

Lexicographically close words:
handwritings; handwritten; handy; handys; haner; hangar; hangars; hangd; hangdog; hange
  1. Come into the other room and sing some carols, and then we must all hang up our stockings and go to bed; to-morrow will be a busy day.

  2. Come down to Assembly Hall and help me to hang up the rest of the sketches, will you?

  3. Is this flag day, and do you really mean you are going to hang both those banners?

  4. It was doubtless a very pleasant, lazy life so far as it went, and we did not decide to hang the inhabitants!

  5. In the saloons of the Generalife hang the portraits of the Moorish and the Christian ancestors of the present owner.

  6. My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry, Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry.

  7. Will they not, think you, hang themselves to-night?

  8. Then King Eagle said things that made all the other birds hang their heads for shame and want to sneak out of sight.

  9. He got many thumps and bumps, but he didn't mind these, for little by little he was learning how to hang on to the branches once he got up in them.

  10. A little urchin would hang to his pony's long tail, while the latter, with only his head above water, glided sportively along.

  11. When I was perplexed, he would hang about me until he understood the situation.

  12. Then, boys, look to your arms, fire low, and don't hang on the aim.

  13. I have told him to hang about outside the gate here, and I would give him an answer.

  14. Hang him by neck if he tries fetish against dem.

  15. After the life I have led, I am afraid that I shall find the time hang heavily on my hands, alone here.

  16. But like a fool I decided to hang on a bit and watch, instead of going right off in that car and fetching help from Stanning.

  17. I'm going to hand you over to the people at Pentonville to hang as a murderer.

  18. I saw that he was disguised; so I decided to hang about a bit and await developments.

  19. Having examined it, he takes one of the little books that hang against the wall, looks happy, and departs.

  20. I'll hang the Priest, first, what was he?

  21. To my Neece too, I hope, and then I may hang her.

  22. Hang from the Gentleman, art thou not asham'd To be a Widows hind'rance?

  23. I shall prove a ridiculous fool, I'll be damn'd else: hang me if I do not half believe thee.

  24. He, hang him, Sir, I know you do but mock, This is the man you would say.

  25. And i'th' end will hang by a twine thred.

  26. Hang him and his Fiddle together, he never fidles any child of ours.

  27. I'll be hang'd though If he dare venture, hang him plumb-porredge, He wrestle?

  28. Sipt some water, I have not clos'd mine eyes Save when my lids scowrd off their bine; alas Dissolve my life, Let not my sence unsettle Least I should drown, or stab or hang my self.

  29. Why what do you take me to be, old Fatheri'Law that shall be, do you think I'll have any of the Wits hang upon me, after I am married once?

  30. Danger, hang danger, what tell you me of danger?

  31. Hang of Fleshook, fasten thine itchy claspe On some dry Toad-stool that will kindle with thee, And burn together.

  32. But I fear that their practice was very, very sad--they very nearly always used to hang them.

  33. Broadswords of flag and rapiers of water-grass, which had been quivering merrily, began to hang down and to dip themselves in loops, and the stones of the brink showed dark green stripes on their sides as they stood naked.

  34. Hang it, Major, if a man is sorry, a soldier forgives him frankly.

  35. They're safe enough to hang me if they ketch me, an' I guess I sha'n't hang no higher if I go right on my own gait.

  36. Following his lead with a surgeon and a small escort, I found the captain of the Evening Shade company lying in a raging fever, with which he had found it impossible to ride, and nearly dead with terror lest we should hang him at once.

  37. They knead the bread, prepare the cooking, wash the linen and hang it out to dry, or if they have slaves to relieve them from these menial labors, they install themselves upon cushions, and chat or embroider in the open air.

  38. These padded garments hang about the body like bags; and sometimes when children fall down they are utterly unable to rise without assistance.

  39. Strings of coral beads were often intertwined with the side locks; and the ornaments of the hair, often costly pearls, were allowed to hang down, giving a delicate tinkle as the woman moved her head.

  40. As far as our eyes could reach, we saw in front of us a desert of glittering stone, heated like an oven by a burning sun, which seemed to hang for that very purpose right above the gorge.

  41. Are we to have nothing to eat to-day, hang it all!

  42. In a minute Roland's voice was heard on the stairs: "Are we to have nothing to eat to-day, hang it all!

  43. This sounded in my ears As if he said, "go, hang yourself!

  44. Yet you should cease to hang forever on them.

  45. Our armor now may rust, our idle scimitars Hang by our sides for ornament, not use.

  46. My own life and the lives of many others may now hang upon a few moments.

  47. A silence, accentuated no doubt by his startled imagination, seemed to hang over the place.

  48. An air of gloom seemed to hang about it, owing to the huge trees which grew pretty close to it in places.

  49. Yes," replied Franklin, "we must hang together, or we will be pretty sure to hang separately.

  50. He who wants to hang anybody or any thing, even though it be but a painting, ought to have at least a substantial gallows.

  51. If the large painting wanted to hang on the wall it would allow the smallest nail to hold it," said Schluter, shaking his head.

  52. Why, Blucher would have to hang his head in shame, and acknowledge that he was not ready!

  53. We shall be left alone, and the time will hang as heavily with us as with a pug-dog in a bandbox.

  54. And I told you to let it stand there, and not try again to hang it up.

  55. You ought to get better nails, count, to hang up paintings, so that they do not fall down.

  56. The few old pictures which hang on the wall are all family portraits.

  57. Above it some delightfully quaint old china is arranged in a half circle; on either side hang four antique engravings of great value, classical subjects from Boucher, the French artist's paintings.

  58. All round the walls hang pictures of the celebrated American trotting horses, whose performances in Central Park, New York, were a daily delight to Mrs. Fraser.

  59. Rising, she points out four pictures, reminiscences of Westmoreland, which hang over her writing-table.

  60. I believe," says your hostess, as you sit at tea, "that I took to scribbling principally through finding time hang heavy on my hands and seeking occupation.

  61. The cuckoo clock opposite used to hang in Philip Bourke Marston's study, and was bequeathed to Miss Hardy, together with some other souvenirs, in memory of their life-long friendship.

  62. They hang absurdly in the motionless ether; they are inconsistent dreams in the still firmament.

  63. Nature approves them and, to reward their trust in happiness, their generous beauty and amorous excesses, grants them a force, a brilliancy and perfumes which she never gives to those which hang back and show a fear of life.

  64. Often and often I've watched Pat, but I never could get the hang of it.

  65. You haint got the hang of this ambition business, Jim.

  66. And as for little Jim, he could hang up his own cap when his host showed him where.

  67. In the ample hall hang old portraits and trophies of the chase.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    art; aspire; bag; cascade; dangle; decline; depend; descent; dip; downgrade; downhill; drag; drape; droop; drop; fall; fasten; feel; filibuster; flap; float; flop; flow; fly; hang; hanging; hesitate; hinge; hover; kite; knack; lynch; murder; neck; nod; noose; pivot; plane; poise; procrastinate; punish; resort; rest; sag; scrag; sling; soar; spiral; spire; stall; stand; stay; stretch; string; suspend; swag; swing; temporize; touch; trail; trick; turn; way; weep; zoom


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hang down; hang himself; hang them; hanging down