Get to know Strung better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Strung in a sentence
Strung meaning
simple past and past participle of string
Using Strung
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of string
- In the example corpus, strung often appears in combinations such as: strung together, strung up, strung out.
Context around Strung
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Strung
- In this selection, "strung" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ceiling, lights, sunak, together, contortionist and outside stand out and add context to how "strung" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a ceiling strung contortionist ghostly and a ceiling strung contortionist refreshed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "strung" sits close to words such as appendix, bailed and banished, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with strung
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But Rishi Sunak strung out taking serious action. (8 words)
A ceiling-strung contortionist refreshed cocktails during the reception. (9 words)
A dead man has been strung up on the side of an arched building. (14 words)
During lockdown he lived at his parents’, planning to buy a house nearby, but the sellers strung him along and put up the price by £30k, so he moved, on a whim, to a rented house in Warwick, opposite the castle. (41 words)
Lauren had strung the walls with Christmas lights and something like a clothesline to which she’d clipped vintage postcards and snapshots of her classmates, all of which combined to give her room a hectic but homey feel. (38 words)
In “Crossings,” Goldfarb profiles several of them and catalogs their many remedies for roadkill, including “flimsy-looking rope courses” strung between forest canopies so that apes in Taiwan and monkeys in Brazil can swing across the freeway. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A ceiling-strung contortionist, ghostly white-eyed cabaret dancers in fishnet stockings passing Champagne flutes and a hearse with flamethrowers and bat wings were all part of that aesthetic at their wedding.
A ceiling-strung contortionist refreshed cocktails during the reception.
Additionally, instead of multi-colored lights strung outside of homes, you’re more likely to see a paper star lantern brightening windows in Denmark in December.
A dead man has been strung up on the side of an arched building.
Before Sunday, the Chicago Blackhawks hadn’t strung together two wins in a row since late October.
But Rishi Sunak strung out taking serious action.
Communities have strung up scores of cable car systems through the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of steep hills plunging into valleys.
During lockdown he lived at his parents’, planning to buy a house nearby, but the sellers strung him along and put up the price by £30k, so he moved, on a whim, to a rented house in Warwick, opposite the castle.
Four hundred Christmas trees strung with lights will spark on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, December 15-17.
From 1979 the town was strung with swathes of lights across the main streets and looked very cheerful but more participation by the public was wanted.
From the Oxford Street stars to Carnaby Street’s neon solar system strung up, London was the best overall city for Christmas light displays.
In “Crossings,” Goldfarb profiles several of them and catalogs their many remedies for roadkill, including “flimsy-looking rope courses” strung between forest canopies so that apes in Taiwan and monkeys in Brazil can swing across the freeway.
In game five, two players strung together four strikes and landed a score of 257.
I saw I’ll play third match tomorrow so I’ve got to go get racquets strung, book practice courts, figure out what time I’m going warm up.
I think that is what I must look for in my daily routine, being alert to the small joys strung together like pearls, pearls singled out in the grit and grind of the ordinary.
It’s an unparalleled barrage of words strung together so perfectly that they remain etched in hip-hop history.
Lauren had strung the walls with Christmas lights and something like a clothesline to which she’d clipped vintage postcards and snapshots of her classmates, all of which combined to give her room a hectic but homey feel.
Night has fallen when the Croat (Željko Ivanek) and his brotherhood of Burazi find the marshal strung up in their trap.
Perched among grand-design Louis Vuitton and Hermès boutiques, it’s got a look, with vintage-style furnishings in mint green and pink, as well as a fairylight-strung patio.
Razor wire is strung along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.
Common combinations with strung
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- strung together 43×
- strung up 22×
- strung out 12×
- strung with 10×
- are strung 10×
- strung along 9×
- were strung 8×
- be strung 8×
- strung on 6×
- was strung 5×