Sentence examples for were hung to dry from inspiring English sources

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Hang out to dry.

If you hang someone out to dry, you abandon them when they are in trouble.

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

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.

The slings were hung to dry outside the surgical unit and the mattresses hung within the surgery unit.

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

She also remembered a day when Romney dropped by to say hello, spotted clothes that had been hung to dry, and spontaneously began to fold them.

I have been hung to dry by academic instititues who have not even bothered to ask me for side of affairs".

A leading Nobel laureate scientist who lost his job after making comments that were widely seen as sexist has said he has been "hung to dry".

I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs".

A row of plucked and gutted ducks, rubbed with red chili, had been hung to dry on a fence in the sun.

In the center of the room, near a pole supporting the roof, from which corn had been hung to dry, one of Vajuvi's daughters knelt in front of a large wooden loom, weaving a hammock.

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