Example Sentences

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State Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio was among them, still sorting through boxes and unhung picture frames.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

The studio is not otherwise very ornamented — a pile of platinum album plaques loll, unhung, in the bathroom.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

She’s staying in the spare room with the lumpy mattress and the unhung Jack Vettriano print, but in the night creeps downstairs to eat mini rolls and wonder how it all came to this.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2018

He retreats to the basement, where a series of beautiful but unhung pieces of artwork line the walls, and to his office.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2017

Abbott shrugged; and the colonel cursed himself for the guiltiest scoundrel unhung.

From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius