Sentence examples for hung dead from inspiring English sources
In a classic late-18th-century experiment, the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani hung dead frogs from his balcony during a thunderstorm.
At the end of a promising drift, just before my fly, a Girdle Bug, hung dead downstream, I felt a take.
The bar's unusual name derives from a strange Prohibition-era epidemic known as "jake leg," which Dan Baum described in a 2003 New Yorker article: The men's feet dangled, their legs hung dead below the knee.
The same goes for his version of installation art, which takes metaphor literally: the title page of Lucy Lippard's 1976 collection of essays, "From the Center" is framed and hung dead center on an empty wall.
Such a description recalls Tom Robinson, whose trial for a similar offense is at the center of "To Kill a Mockingbird"; "His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right," the author explains in that novel, "and hung dead at his side.
In The Terrible Picture, one of her daughters appears to hang dead from a tree.
Becky isn't stick thin, doesn't wear makeup and her hair hangs dead and matted like roadkill.
You are in a Spanish restaurant where the bull's head hangs dead on the wall; you are in France with the woodwork and liqueurs.
The retailer's costume description reads: "All Doctor Palmer wanted was to hang dead animals in his house, but what started as an obscure (if legally-dubious) hunting trip has since erupted into a brouhaha of trans-Atlantic proportions.
Today the vast watercolour hangs dead and dull on the wall, the biggest mystery being why this was considered so stellar that Burne-Jones was photographed at work on it and compared his labours to those of Michelangelo.
The mill's paychecks financed homes, swing sets and Pontiacs, and made it possible for workers to live in a place where bank tellers ask about their mothers' blood pressure, convenience stores collect money in jars for sick children's doctor bills, and old men still hang dead snakes from the trees to make it rain.
