HANG in a Sentence

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For HANG, below is one of 304 sentences:
You could make him apologize for being a cur and forgive him so sweetly that he would hang around trying to kiss you a second time.

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 Meanings and Examples of HANG
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hang
 v.  suspend; fasten to some elevated point without support from below; hold for support
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He went out into the passage to hang up his coat and pull off his wet boots.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Ethan went out into the passage to hang up his wet garments.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  You could make him apologize for being a cur and forgive him so sweetly that he would hang around trying to kiss you a second time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  The doctor says that if they do hang him it will be the first good honest job the Yankees ever did, but then, I don't know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Perhaps till they hang him, but maybe they won't be able to prove the killing on him, after all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  However, it doesn't seem to bother the Yankees whether folks are guilty or not, so long as they can hang somebody.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  But Hugh Elsing told me he didn't think they'd hang Captain Butler because the Yankees think he does know where the money is and just won't tell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  They can hang me higher than Haman for all you care.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  "Thank you, but they may not hang you till it's too late to pay the taxes," she said with a sudden malice that matched his own, and she meant it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  They could and did imprison citizens for any cause, or no cause, seize their property, hang them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  He warn't scared of the English government when they wanted to hang him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  It's the realization that if all of us don't hang together and submerge our own small hates, we can't expect to beat the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  If anyone sees you, you'll hang as well as the rest of us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  Dave had given verdict, "What these mouthy youngsters that hang around the pool-room need is universal military training."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
16  Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.
17  The sweetest grapes hang the highest.
18  Never hang a man twice for one offenece.
19  If you hang your clothes out in the bright sun, they will fade.
20  Signs with three balls hang outside pawnbrokers' shops.
21  We hang the walls with wallpaper once a year.
22  You'll rumple your jacket if you don't hang it up properly.
23  You may hang about here when I send down these vegetables.
24  I was worried I wouldn't be able to hang my washing out.
25  He has not a peg to hang on.
26  We must hang together, or we'll be hanged separately.
27  Icicles hang from tree braches in winter.
28  We have a washing line from which we hang clothes to dry.
29  All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory.
30  Their accounts of what happened don't hang together.