How to Use strung up in a Sentence

strung up

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• His was the only home that had Christmas lights strung up.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• By evening, more corpses had been strung up from the station’s lampposts.
  — Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• In front of dozens of onlookers, they are strung up to a tree and a fire stoked beneath them.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• Some hire outside help to get the lights strung up on the tall trees in their yards and in the community.
  — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Witnesses told police the dog had been strung up by its neck on a leash.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
• Dinner in the bush with lights strung up at tables among the other guests, who had seen roaring male lions and zebras on their game drive.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
• Inside were stone benches and mats made from tamarisk twigs, an altar and a heap of cowrie shells apparently once strung up in a curtain across the door.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• This week, the capital’s streets are swept and primed, ready for the big party ahead – Union Jack bunting is strung up, shops are adorned with red, white and blue blooms, and flags are waving merrily.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Thousands of colorful prayer flags were strung up overhead, and every storefront seemed to be a café or a shop selling gear and souvenirs.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
• After that gnarly incident, she and Jack are eventually captured, and she is strung up by that arm.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
• Its coastal areas and cayes offer white-sand beaches that promise lazy days at beach bars and hammocks strung up between swaying palms.
  — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Both feature a congress of folks—friends, fellow artists, doppelgängers—gathered under cafe lights strung up in trees.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
• Middle classes blossomed, a baby boom ensued, and social safety nets were strung up.
  — Rajiv J. Shah, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
• Lippold strung up the dense web himself, meticulously affixing wires to eyebolts anchored in the ceiling of the concert hall’s glass atrium.
  — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The orange and blue flags of his governing Justice and Development Party are often strung up overhead.
  — Gulsin Harman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• For the second time this week, crime scene tape was strung up outside a convenience store on southwest Atlanta’s busy Metropolitan Parkway following a deadly shooting.
  — John Spink, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
• At roughly 44 by 72½ inches, the oil painting depicts a mishmash of Flemish peasants toting their wares — baskets of eggs and flowers, a bird strung up by its feet — before a Spanish tax collector coolly reviewing his records.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024