Sentence examples for were hung to from inspiring English sources

The sun faded the rainbow "Pace" banners that were hung to protest the war in Iraq.

The strings were hung to dry around the house, the treats later gnawed upon for the rest of the trip.

The great royal portraits were hung to dramatic effect at the end of long vistas in the royal palaces at St James's, Whitehall and Hampton Court.

Yellow ribbons which were hung to a sign welcoming drivers to the borough were ordered removed under a local ordinance banning displays on public property.

Some, converted from storehouses, still have large iron rings in their high, vaulted ceilings where bails of corn, figs and carob were hung to dry in the breeze off the sea.

"They'd say, 'I'm a fireman, and my uncle used to work here.' " Sometimes he invited them in and showed them the old brass fittings and the narrow space where the hemp hoses were hung to dry after a fire.

Under Saddam, dozens of people were hanged to death every week in Abu Ghraib.

Sheets of blue plastic had simply been hung to block out the scene.

There, a string of bright laundry has been hung to dry.

But over the weekend, inevitably, a tarpaulin was hung to block the view.

The system was hung to a balance of 0.01 g accuracy with a non-elastic wire and the mass variation is continuously recorded.