be hung
Example Sentences
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The extravagant abode features soaring 50-foot ceilings, Italian-style gardens, and Baccarat crystal chandeliers so heavy they had to be hung from steel beams.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
The catch: Portraits must be hung along with those of losers past, which is why the league is named “The Canvas Keeprs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Bruce called the next number, only to be hung up on.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2024
One analyst, Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities, even called its quarterly report “a masterpiece that should be hung in the Louvre.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024
It was really very strange that a woman as beautiful and slender and willowy and graceful, a creature as perfectly packaged, as supremely dressed as the Countess should be hung up on teeth that way.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
