How do you use the word "hung" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hung": The picture is hung crooked. The fronts of the houses were hung with flags.

Hung Meaning

/ˈhʌŋ/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbsimple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)

verbsimple past and past participle of hang (in any sense)

Sentence Examples

The picture is hung crooked.

The fronts of the houses were hung with flags.

He did the laundry and hung it out to dry.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

hang

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She ____ the picture on the wall after carefully measuring where to place it.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She carefully ____ the beautiful new painting on the living room wall for everyone to see.

Word Origin & History

From Mandarin or Cantonese 洪 (Mandarin: Hóng, Cantonese: hung⁴) or Cantonese 孔 (hung²).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereon Judas hung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country." — 1731, John Taperell, A New Miscellany: Containing the Art of Conversation, and Several Other Subjects, page 6:

"I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would have hung him on the firſt tree." — 1795, Hugh Brackenridge, chapter VIII, in Incidents of the Insurrection in the Weſtern Parts of Pennſylvania In the Year 1794, volume I, Philadelphia: John M‘Culloch, page 55:

"A MURDERER HUNG IN TIME SAVES NINE." — 1884 April 12, Harper’s Weekly. […], volume XXVIII, number 1425, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 237:

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