hung

Example Sentences

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"We've hung on to the slow worms and they obviously like it here."

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

“He came with two really good fastballs but then he hung a changeup and I knew I got it,” Grindlinger said of his 41st hit and second homer this season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

During his club playing career, Beckham spent time at Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan, the American side LA Galaxy, and Paris Saint-Germain, where he hung up his boots in 2013.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The point of no return was 1915, when Duchamp, altogether rejecting art’s traditional role as aesthetic creation—metamorphosis—brought that snow shovel and hung it from his studio ceiling as “In Advance of the Broken Arm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

He stripped off his cloak, hung it on the hook, then instinctively attempted to remove the monocle that was no longer there.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman