How to Use strung up in a Sentence

strung up

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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