stringing up
Example Sentences
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Medical teams triaged evacuees in a car park, wrapping up wounds and stringing up bags of saline for IV drips under tents.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
Turabi was notorious for ripping music tapes from cars, stringing up hundreds of meters of destroyed cassettes in trees and signposts.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
The solution is an easy one: Simply wash your hands after stringing up the lights, or wear gloves while putting them on.
From Slate • Nov. 27, 2018
Another trooper can be seen behind him, stringing up yellow police tape.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2018
They got their effects off the boat, and pitched the old tent up on the Moosehide; then followed days full to overflowing, breathless, fevered, yet without result beyond a general stringing up of nerves.
From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth
