What's the difference between slung and sung?

Slung


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Sling
  • (p. p.) of Sling
  • () imp. & p. p. of Sling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
  • (2) When I arrived, I couldn’t make sense of the sprawling, low-slung place at all.
  • (3) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (4) "They slandered us, slung mud at us and shut us out of all the news media – the TV channels of the corrupt elite – and we beat them," the 55-year-old leader said as the votes came in.
  • (5) Wearing blue scrubs, she had a large Barack Obama shopping bag slung over her shoulder with the president's beaming portrait beneath the word "Hope".
  • (6) What does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean?
  • (7) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
  • (8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
  • (9) Left ventricular function was assessed during volume loading with blood before and after cutting the chordae tendineae by means of electrocautery applied via flexible wires slung around the chordae and exteriorized through the left ventricular wall.
  • (10) The lights go down, the dry ice swirls, Rossi stands with his back to the stage, Parfitt is coiled, his guitar slung low at groin level.
  • (11) I walked the three blocks home with my backpack slung as low as possible, so that no one walking behind me could see what had happened or could think I had peed myself.
  • (12) In the film, he travels the land and seashore, his painter’s kit slung over one shoulder.
  • (13) This act of terror has not achieved its goal in this sense,” said an unshaven Navalny, with a sports bag slung over his shoulder, after leaving the Moscow detention centre.
  • (14) Located beneath the knee in each walking leg, the cockroach subgenual organ is a thin, fan-shaped flap of tissue slung across the dorsal blood space of the tibia at right angles to the leg's long axis.
  • (15) "He is not here," says a rebel guard: glazed eyes, rifle slung over ill-fitting uniform, pitiably young.
  • (16) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
  • (17) Some of the men sat closest to the edge and sported bows and arrows for self-defence, while others had machete sheaths slung across their backs.
  • (18) Come the end of November, I won’t have a roof.” As a single parent, Steve won’t be the only one slung out.
  • (19) When he wrote that "Redstarts flew from tree to tree, taking the line a slack rope would take slung between them; economy in flight is what makes it graceful", it is the economy of the prose which makes the observation graceful.
  • (20) 4km from Carvalhal and Amália beaches A group of low-slung white buildings surrounded by the empty expanses of the Alentejo, Cerca do Sul has seven rooms, including one family room, all opening on to the terrace.

Sung


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Sing
  • (p. p.) of Sing
  • () imp. & p. p. of Sing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Version came out, featuring covers sung by Winehouse, Allen et al, it was again assumed by some that Ronson had simply flicked through his diamanté-encrusted contacts book and got his friends to rehash a few old songs written by other people.
  • (2) 111, 315--328; Holbrook, S. R., Sussman, J. L., Warrant, R. W., Church, G. M., & Kim, Sung-Hou (1977) Nucleic Acids Res.
  • (3) "I feel good about the park's resumption, but I also have a heavy heart," said Sung Hyun-sang, president of apparel manufacturer Mansun Corporation, which has lost about 7bn won because of the shutdown.
  • (4) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
  • (5) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
  • (6) Twenty years ago, NASA researchers sung its praises as potential astronaut chow, mainly for its superior nutrient density.
  • (7) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (8) As we’ve made clear, measures to strengthen the national nuclear power in quality and quantity will continue to protect our dignity and right to live from augmented threats of nuclear war from the United States.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The US special representative for North Korea policy, Sung Kim, addresses the media in Tokyo on Sunday.
  • (9) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
  • (10) A branch of the Labour party of Malaysia was censured for staging a concert at which "two objectionable songs were sung in spite of the fact that the police had registered their disapproval".
  • (11) Stallone, whose career was launched by Rocky, and who has previously sung in films such as Rhinestone , is unlikely to be cast himself.
  • (12) Although Kabila appeared "quick and charming" - when he deigned to turn up - he was usually engaging in conspiratorial politics in Dar es Salaam, or negotiating with China's Chou En-lai or North Korea's Kim il-Sung.
  • (13) But to defuse any possible tensions, the authorities had decided that the teams should mix together as they lined up and that the Marseillaise should be sung by Lââm, a young R&B singer of Franco-Tunisian extraction.
  • (14) There was even a genuinely moving soft metal version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung by the entire stadium, the night transformed suddenly into a huge blissfully teary family wedding.
  • (15) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
  • (16) Stay (sung primarily by Detroit) became a mutant No 1 hit, a pop culture flashpoint parodied by both French & Saunders and Newman & Baddiel, who likened Fahey's voice to a foghorn.
  • (17) "I thought it was like music I sung over a long time ago; sounded like some old Wu shit, you know?
  • (18) Some would say the Sunderland manager – whose evolving side have one point from four games – was foolish to combat Arsenal with a 4-4-2 system featuring two orthodox wingers flanking a midfield anchored by the far from heavyweight David Vaughan and the debut-making Ki Sung-yueng but the Italian is not one of life's natural pragmatists.
  • (19) According to the report, 100,000 Pyongyong residents are preparing for North Korea's most important national holiday – Kim Il-sung's birthday, on 15 April – by planting trees throughout the city.
  • (20) Sung-ha Joo, in his 40s, was a reservist artillery officer, in the North Korean military before he left in 2001.

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