How to Use hung up in a Sentence

hung up

adjective

• Many people are hung up about their physical appearance.
• Metro area residents can hang up their coats for the next day or so.
  — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• Reached by phone and asked about Yolo, Thompson hung up.
  — Author: Holbrook Mohr, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Celery hung up in the grind chamber briefly, but cleared quickly on its own.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
• Who is that woman who is hanging up that laundry outside in her backyard?
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2019
• This is the worst interview ever that kyle guy is so rude even after harry hang up !!
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 22 Nov. 2019
• Johnson hung up the phone that early morning and sped to the hospital.
  — Ilana Yurkiewicz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• Someone's got to hang up and put together those holiday gifts, after all.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 19 Nov. 2019
• But Chika hung up the phone, in a hurry to return to playtime, and I was left staring at the cell in my hands.
  — Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• If a call seems suspicious, Jahn said customers should hang up and call the company to check the status of their account.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2019
• After Brian hung up, Joshua and his sister went to Brian’s apartment.
  — Amy Forliti, Twin Cities, 9 Sep. 2019
• Reached by phone for comment, Interstate Printing hung up on AL.com.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 14 Nov. 2019
• The driver was trying to reverse the Silverado out of the home, but it was hung up on debris, Gabriel Martinez told police.
  — Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Equipped with handy hooks, benches, and drawers, this laundry room-slash-mudroom offers a chic and functional place to sit down, kick off your shoes, and hang up your coat (read: keep the clutter away from the rest of the house).
  — Alexa Tucker, House Beautiful, 15 Nov. 2019
• Kerry Washington is hanging up her white hat for a totally new character in American Son.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• With five low-key album releases and not much mainstream radio support over the last decade and a half, many believed the four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter hung up his guitar for the silver screen.
  — Jamaal Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2019
• Arts and crafts retailer A.C. Moore is hanging up its brush, announcing plans Monday to close all 145 of its stores in the coming weeks.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019
• The Cubs hit a few deep fly balls early in the game that got hung up in the wind.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022
• The mother reached the man on the phone, but when the officer took the phone, the man hung up.
  — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2020
• Sheila hung up the phone and looked at her two children and prayed.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2020
• The pump was still in the man’s car, so police removed and hung up the pump.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
• Callion had to cut the harness to free the three from the chute, which was hung up on the old bridge.
  — al, 1 June 2022
• Old zebra-print sheets were hung up to hide the garage door.
  — Kieran Dahl, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• But in the beginning, don't get too hung up on the book.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 29 May 2020
• But the ball hung up there, just drifting through the air, and the rookie felt his body start to drop.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2023
• No hosiery mill could help her to make the product - all of them hung up on her.
  — Stephanie Burns, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• When the dispatcher asked about the woman, the man hung up.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2020
• The state has had its plans to install drop boxes hung up in the courts for months.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• Khloé Kardashian has again addressed eagle-eyed fans hung up on a fleshy scar strip on her face.
  — Nardine Saadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The key was bent a little, and one of them hung up in the start position instead of returning to the run position, which is supposed to disengage the starter.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024