Sentence examples for hung him off from inspiring English sources

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The only way this could have been more iconic is if they tried to hang a straw paedo and hung him off the edge of the bridge to his death, a pile of pillows in an old Newcastle away shirt flopping onto the brush from the underpass below.

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He explains that his jailers threatened to hang him and pull off his fingernails, then quips that he called two seemingly clueless interrogators "Cheech and Chong", after the 1980s US comedy duo.

Wyatt's crew, led by Angela (Talulah Riley), has looped a noose around the Man in Black's neck that will hang him when the horse runs off.

The teacher, Lance Gackowski, talked about how, in pickup basketball games, Brian would cheerfully continue to concentrate on putting the ball in from under the basket while a couple of opposing players hung off him.

The practice uniform hangs off him, and his hair is matted, a bright orange University of Tennessee hat in his hands.

Though Mr. Hundert -- as he is almost universally addressed -- is stiff backed and proper, hints of pyschological complexity hang off him like threads of frayed tweed.

Banner, dressed in clothes that hang off him (as if preparing for the worst) is an exhausted presence, a man so tortured by his divided-self condition that he once put a bullet in his mouth, but "the other guy spat it out".

Calum is as slow-witted as his sister is sharp; he is "too tall, too thin, slightly stooped, and his clothes hang off him like someone's dressed a stick.... What he made me think of was something that's been grown in the dark, forced, like rhubarb under a flowerpot -- tall and pale and spindly".

A quick running, nimble prop, described as "like watching an oversized teenager playing under-15s, as people just hang off him".

I miss that I can't just hug my dad and hang off him like a weird jungle gym.

He had lost considerable weight, particularly in his face, and his white shirt hung off him.

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