Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tense or exhausted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of string.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
string .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
string .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that is on a string
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Examples
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It is what I call the strung-along type, the type of continuity, contiguity, or concatenation.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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It read "Jersey guys rule" and had a cartoon picture stick figure guy with a marlin strung up on the dock with a beer in hand.
Joey From The Dock 2008
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I remember my Maw Maw hanging the white sheets on the clothesline that was strung from a post near her back door out toward the edge of the lawn near the creek, and the game we'd make of dodging around them, and the sweet, sunny smell we'd breathe in from them at night, as if they'd absorbed our happiness.
February 2008 2008
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Bertie Arkwright, sensitive, finely strung, is traveling in the Solomons with a five-week layover between steamers.
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Why do you think a line was strung from the grenade and into the bus?
Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I remember my Maw Maw hanging the white sheets on the clothesline that was strung from a post near her back door out toward the edge of the lawn near the creek, and the game we'd make of dodging around them, and the sweet, sunny smell we'd breathe in from them at night, as if they'd absorbed our happiness.
sense of place 2008
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Twain strung it out beyond reason, carried away by the exuberance of his own burlesque; but it is a vital and integral part of the story.
Untagged book meme superversive 2007
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What are the ladder-like strings strung from the three masts?
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Bruhin strung together a series of smooth runs in temperatures as low as 1 degree and beat Julie Pomajalski of France by 0.32 seconds in the final.
USATODAY.com - Bruhin defends parallel giant slalom title 2003
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Eckstein strung together singles to put runners at the corners.
American League - Major League Baseball - Anaheim vs. Minnesota 2002
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