strung along

The exchange highlighted in the evidence shows that Cohen felt strung along by Trump, a man who didn’t seem to know, at least in Cohen’s telling, how to define Cohen’s role.

Is it John Cusack, holding that boom box aloft in “Say Anything” or curating mixtapes in “High Fidelity”? Do you picture Ryan Gosling squeezing the hearts and flowers out of Rachel McAdams’ face in “The Notebook,” or any of the problematic dudes who strung along Molly Ringwald in your pick of John Hughes movies?

In Bhutan, Buddhist prayer flags are a common sight — squares of five colors, strung along bridges and at meditation stops next to scenic mountain roadways.

In what was one of the earliest aerial archaeological surveys, the French aviator went on to map and photograph more than 100 outposts strung along a 1000-kilometer arc between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Along one side of the room, childhood photos of each soldier are strung along the wall like bunting.