1.   But they slipped back inside, leaving his smile hanging like a rag on a stick.

2.   I hung like a bird in the water overhead, watching for the Octopus he was trying to entice.

3.   I watched her expel each word from her mouth, the syllables hanging like cartwheels of breath crowding the dry hospital air.

4.   Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons.

5.   No footmarks disturbed the dust, cobwebs hung like festoons and a strange musty smell pervaded the atmosphere.

6.   The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.

7.   Denuded heads on pale green drooping stems hung like mourners at a graveside over the ring of faded scarlet petals that lay on the painted wood.

8.   Over the quarry the clouds hung like overstuffed mattresses.

9.   Nomes hung like spiders from the steering wheel, hauling it around.