string up

Example Sentences

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Each year the locals would string up the swing; each year the rangers would cut it down.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Using social media, he rallied hundreds of fellow residents behind a plan to string up their own lights in the center of the city.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Redondo Beach police were called when a group of volleyball players tried to string up their own net where county nets were removed in March, said Nicole Mooradian, of the Department of Beaches & Harbors.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2020

The owner of the home, when contacted by police, said he was nearly certain it was the same rope he had hung there a year earlier to string up a deer.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2015

He got up, and began to retrace his steps, winding the string up again into a ball.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill