Sentence examples for hanging from inspiring English sources

The word 'hanging' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing the action of suspending something or someone from a higher point in space. For example: "The young girl was found hanging from the tree in the garden."

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hanging

noun

The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide).

  • Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.

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But the referendum on the UK's EU membership hangs over environmental policy like the clouds of illegal pollution hanging over the UK's towns and cities (for which the Tory manifesto has no plan at all).

"Even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head.

He made such a goofy production of trying to light the fuses hanging off his shoe that he practically asked the flight attendant if she had a match.

Or visit a park where children can't play because of needles, used condoms, and hooligans hanging around.

David Cameron is prepared to improve a financial aid package for Northern Ireland if the local parties secure an agreement on issues hanging over from the peace process, the region's first minister has claimed.

Misfiring Flintoff sums up England's Ashes by Mike Selvey After hanging on to them for just 15 months, the shortest of reigns since first the urn was given to Ivo Bligh in 1883, England handed the Ashes back to Australia two balls after lunch on the final day here yesterday.

I sat beside the spa pool afterwards, looking up at the multicoloured hanging flowers and thinking that the only thing that could make things any better would be if someone brought me a pot of mint tea… when someone brought me a pot of mint tea.

Antonio Valencia tries not to think about that night any more, the indescribable pain, the fear that flashed through his mind when he looked down at his leg and realised it had been snapped like a dried twig, his foot hanging back to front.

In a week where Gentleman Jim Davidson has won Celebrity Big Brother, you might find yourself wondering whether there is any semi-pariah in British life who, by mere virtue of hanging around long enough, would not eventually find themselves restored to some sort of vogue given the right passage of time.

No, but that's classic … it's like hanging around Chelsea football club as a teenager and they'd say, "Do you feel disgusted?" and you'd be like, "Er, yeah, OK".

Although, in some ways, victory was beside the point – for many of the nearly 600 cubers in attendance, a record, the World Championship was more about hanging out with other cubers, some of whom they had never met offline.

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