How to Use strung out in a Sentence
strung out
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And only one broke the tape each race, with the rest strung out far around the track.
—Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 18 June 2019
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Dozens of the birds crest the ridges alone, in pairs, strung out in groups that punctuate the sky like ellipses.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2020
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In the '60s, a lot of soldiers were coming home from Vietnam strung out.
—Bruce Tomaso, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2019
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There is a buffalo strung out to dry outside and a tall stack of deer legs at the door.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
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Inside the room, officers found a rope tied to the framework of a bed, which strung out across the the balcony.
—Robert Anglen, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
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There were these Christmas lights all strung out, and tables with food.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
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Doing it on the phone, by text or email can string out that process by hours, and perhaps take up the bulk of a workday.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Apr. 2020
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The problem is we’re all strung out, pushed to the limit, there’s just no energy left.
—Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2020
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The Raptors could string out their core through the next few seasons and attempt to keep its playoff streak alive.
—Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 17 July 2019
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The only color comes from clotheslines strung out over the valley.
—Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
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Kim Kardashian West knows how to string out a story line.
—Washington Post, 25 June 2019
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As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine grinds on, Russian and Ukrainian troops are strung out along more than 300 miles of front.
—David Axe, Forbes, 9 June 2022
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Andre then drops Franklin in front of a house where young people and mothers with children are strung out.
—Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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Judging from the work on view, that means nobody who looks too strung out, nobody smoking.
—Travis Diehl, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
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Here on that sofa is the white woman in those movies, waiting for, strung out on, Black male attention.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
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And that sounds pretty good to the Marine Corps, which is thinking hard about how to supply outposts of Marines strung out across thousands of miles in the next war.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2020
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Sometimes Mac strings out a narrative in which the songs fit in, almost like a musical.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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Murray Weiss: Louis testified that James looked strung out.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2019
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But on Saturday night, Ashton was all strung out on adrenaline with no show to play.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 11 June 2019
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Residents said Russian troops seemed high on power or strung out with fear.
—Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
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The narrator does not realize until too late how strung out the woman is.
—Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
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Ferries dock side by side with fishing boats in bustling Marina Grande, where cafés and restaurants are strung out along the quayside.
—Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2020
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We are strung out, panting to ascend the deceptively gentle hill with local guide Wendy in the lead car in front and our support van at the back.
—Anna Hartley, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
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And you could be strung out for months before a decision is made about whether an appliance will be replaced.
—Lew Sichelman, courant.com, 26 July 2019
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The pumice is strung out in long streamers, suggesting it has been smeared and distorted by ocean currents and weather as the pumice floats along the ocean surface.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2016
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He was too strung out to be relied on for anything except helping a sick friend through withdrawal.
—John Otis, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017
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At the start of the week, Sally was one of a record-tying five storms churning simultaneously in the Atlantic, strung out like charms on a bracelet.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2020
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Families strung out their clothes hoping the blistering post-storm sun would dry them out and get rid of the unmistakable odor of mold.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
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In another five hours, he would be strung out, hurting for another hit.
—Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
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Meanwhile, Emily, gaunt and strung out, spends a great deal of time padding around their grimly underlit house dressed only in jeans and a bra.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Mar. 2021
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