How to Use strung out in a Sentence

strung out

adjective

• And only one broke the tape each race, with the rest strung out far around the track.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 18 June 2019
• 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
• In the '60s, a lot of soldiers were coming home from Vietnam strung out.
  — Bruce Tomaso, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• There were these Christmas lights all strung out, and tables with food.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The only color comes from clotheslines strung out over the valley.
  — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Kim Kardashian West knows how to string out a story line.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Judging from the work on view, that means nobody who looks too strung out, nobody smoking.
  — Travis Diehl, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Sometimes Mac strings out a narrative in which the songs fit in, almost like a musical.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Murray Weiss: Louis testified that James looked strung out.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2019
• But on Saturday night, Ashton was all strung out on adrenaline with no show to play.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 11 June 2019
• Residents said Russian troops seemed high on power or strung out with fear.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In another five hours, he would be strung out, hurting for another hit.
  — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024