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Example sentences for "hanged"

Lexicographically close words:
hangar; hangars; hangd; hangdog; hange; hangel; hangen; hanger; hangers; hangest
  1. It is my boat and if anyone chose to risk his life to recover it he should be myself, and I'll be hanged if I'll try it.

  2. Then I'll have to run for it, and I'll be hanged if I'll run from all the yeggmen in the State of Maine!

  3. At Dover and Folkestone a thief was killed by being thrown from a cliff, and at Winchelsea was hanged in the salt marsh.

  4. It was the body of Sforza the adventurer from the south, Gonfaloniere of Gilderoy, whom the King had hanged to grace his double treachery.

  5. He had decreed that Nord of the Hammer should be hanged for negligence, but the decree was unnecessary, since Flavian's sword had already settled the matter.

  6. She petted Charley like the mother did in the "Fourth Reader" whose boy was hanged because he had no raisin' and was given his own way about everything.

  7. Archie was playin' hangin' and this Dutch boy was the criminal and was bein' hanged for a crime.

  8. I'll ha' thee hanged or otherwise punished for what thou hast done.

  9. Not less devoid of truth is the tradition that Arrowsmith was hanged for witnessing a good confession.

  10. She only escaped being hanged with her paramour by being about to give birth to a child, and was finally pardoned by the Chapterhouse.

  11. In 1507 a murderer was hanged in front of his victim's house.

  12. In fact, they hanged the over-zealous Bourdier and Jourdain upon the quay just by the bridge.

  13. Judicial ideas, however, took a long time to become civilised; for in 1408 a pig was solemnly hanged for having killed a little child.

  14. In a few cases a respite was granted and life was spared; but as a general rule the captives were forthwith hanged or beheaded in the presence of their fellow-sufferers.

  15. Except you tell, you shall be hanged this very minute.

  16. Yes, and be hanged to you; you are as drunk as you can be, and you know it,” responded Britton.

  17. Just as you like, I always look after number one first, and I’ll be hanged if I have anything more to do with you.

  18. I’ll be hanged if I know what you are driving at,” cried Britton.

  19. Yes—he—he was hanged last Monday, and my—my wretch of a husband bought him.

  20. Bond, the butcher was hanged at Tyburn for a highway robbery, attended with brutal violence, within one year after the death of Britton.

  21. He lives now where there may be many people, and it would detract from our triumph over Gray to be hanged for his murder.

  22. But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great mill-stone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

  23. And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

  24. And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, "Art not thou the Christ?

  25. The colonel made a little speech to the boys in which he said that some fanatics, who ought to be hanged without judge or jury, were destroying property in town, and it was our business to put a stop to it if we could.

  26. Some were taken out of their houses at night and whipped; others were tarred and feathered; and more were hanged by self-appointed vigilance committees, or killed in personal encounters.

  27. If I'd been Gerald I'm hanged if I would have told him the truth, and would have taken my chance with the fort.

  28. Your boat was simply poaching--I'm hanged if I'll cane him.

  29. Old Zorilla had taken on his job as Commander-in-Chief, and Gerald said that things were going on swimmingly, though what actual difference the change of President had made, he was hanged if he could tell.

  30. The noise came from the back of the town, but I'm hanged if I could see the guns, though I searched the whole of that tree-covered ridge most carefully.

  31. At the end of the hour I tried to push on again, but I'm hanged if I could.

  32. I'm hanged if I'm going down there,' he told me.

  33. I'm a pretty big boss on board my ship, but I'm hanged if I was in it compared with him on shore.

  34. I wanted to say 'my boy,' but I'm hanged if I could.

  35. The corpse of Artevelde, who had been suffocated in the press, was hanged on a gibbet for a warning to all demagogues.

  36. Run away, my dear dream children to your playground of shadows where you belong, for your father may be hanged to-morrow, and he fights for love and life to-night.

  37. It is now my task as Grand Constable of France to declare that the life of Master François Villon is forfeit and to pronounce on him this sentence, that he be straightway hanged upon yonder gibbet.

  38. I would have hanged the rogue out of hand.

  39. All very fine; but it was an act of piracy, for which he could have been hanged at the yardarm.

  40. In later days Cortés hanged Guatemozin, on pretence of a conspiracy.

  41. And from their pilgrimage he charged His parents not to cease, Saying that unless they promised this, He could not be hanged in peace.

  42. Just hear what those boys are singing," said the young storks; "they say we shall be hanged and roasted.

  43. Each prince who came and tried the three guesses, so that he might marry the princess, had been unable to find them out, and had been hanged or beheaded.

  44. You are in my house, and in my employment, and I'll be hanged if I stand by and see you ruined.

  45. But I'm hanged if I can understand it, for when I saw her last, as I told you, she abused me like a pickpocket.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hanged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.