How to Use string along in a Sentence

string along

verb

• Lights strung along the promenade form shapes of the town's lifeblood.
  — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Church bells rang out and black bunting was strung along buildings.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2018
• Small white lights strung along the ceiling evoke a starry sky.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 4 May 2020
• Fairy lights were strung along the outside the church, and small plastic tealights were handed out at the door.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
• Most notable is the dan bau, a single silk string along a bamboo tube.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• But an audience can’t be strung along for two-plus hours on that alone.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 28 Nov. 2019
• The historic downtown is strung along a few blocks of a divided Route 66.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• The song’s melody is straight as anything -- one syllable to a beat, quarter-notes all strung along in a row.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2017
• But all of the residents in towns strung along the lake’s southern edge know the resulting ash as black snow.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• My favorite place on Earth is up a rutted dirt road that strings along a creek in southwest Colorado.
  — Peter Heller, Outdoor Life, 17 Feb. 2020
• The clock has stood still in this tiny fishing village strung along a series of small coves on the Costa Brava, at the end of a winding road.
  — Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 6 June 2017
• In 1890s France a courtesan falls in love with a young writer but strings along a duke who can finance improvements to the night spot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Banks can make an exception to the 90-day rule, especially when you’ve been strung along like this by a business.
  — The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
• Perhaps the mere promise of future tax cuts is enough to string along an otherwise calm stock market.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
• This forces you to install the camera close by a power outlet or string along an extension cable to reach the device.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2023
• The small towns strung along the Long Island Sound combine quiet coastal beauty and gobs of old-timey charm (think picture-perfect inns and cozy taverns).
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
• From a distance, the building looks a bit like an isolated prison, with high walls and barbed wire strung along the roof to keep monkeys from breaking solar panels.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• Boeing's airline customers, strung along for months, have lost patience.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2019
• Here’s my argument: When times were fat—like, six months ago—auto makers could afford to pad the bill and string along consumers with new features.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 29 May 2020
• The ski area resembles a vast white curtain strung along six high peaks, trails plummeting for 3,000 vertical feet among the folds and ripples.
  — Cindy Hirschfeld, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• These strands act like long highways stretching between the clusters, with thousands of galaxies strung along them.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• That also meant that some travelers who did not live near ports were strung along for days as the line continued to postpone departure dates.
  — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
• Whether strung along stair rails or draped across a mantle, this garland of gingerbread men and houses brings a fun, on-the-nose element to your seasonal decor.
  — Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
• Whether strung along stair rails or draped across a mantle, this garland of gingerbread men and houses brings a fun, on-the-nose element to your seasonal decor.
  — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
• Such hooks, or katiyas, on open transmission wires strung along street lights, are a popular method of electricity theft in India.
  — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 18 June 2019
• Kim has strung along the president with flowery, flattering love letters.
  — Doyle McManus, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
• The observatory spans one cubic kilometer of ice and consists of 5,160 sensors strung along cables and sunk deep into the ice.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• At Christmastime, thick swags of white pine and arborvitae string along the entire length of the porch, with the occasional pair of galvanized bells tucked in for punctuation.
  — Shaila Wunderlich, Country Living, 3 Jan. 2023
• There were 20 fish factories strung along the bay, a constellation of churches and schools, a cinema hall built in art deco, and, in the central plaza, massive drying racks for the tons upon tons of fish hauled out of the sea.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• That’s when the zoo reopens after its regular 9 a.m.-5 p.m. winter hours and turns on the lights – nearly 1 million bulbs strung along the zoo’s walkways or arranged into electric displays.
  — John Bordsen, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024