string out
Example Sentences
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And I think what they were trying to do was to string out and string out the investigation.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024
While it’s worth encouraging folks not to use fireworks amid escalating wildfire danger, they say it’s kind of silly that federal land managers would suggest using aerosol cans of sticky party string out in nature.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023
Zayer notes that it’s common for companies to try to string out their Super Bowl ad buys by crafting a larger narrative around them — including courting controversy.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2023
In C, the ‘%n’ specifier means to save the number of characters written into the format string out to a variable passed to the string format function.
From The Verge • Jul. 4, 2021
Joyce Ann was lying on her bed screaming because she had yanked the string out of her talking doll and it was no longer talking.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
