How To Use Strung In A Sentence
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From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum (sacred shell beads, polished and strung in strands, belts, or sashes) to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts.
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They are then strung from trees and dangle in the scorching sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the Medical Council feels it is hamstrung by 20-year-old legislation which restricts it from expanding the council to cope with its heavy workload.
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That would give the government a much-needed handle on economic policy-making, which has been hamstrung by opposition obstructionism.
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Nets are strung on the exterior frame to catch falling objects, and every other floor is planked to stop falls.
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He'd tied his sneaker laces together, and now had his shoes strung about his neck.
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These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
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Hamstrung by his uncle, he was having to go through an exasperating charade in order to nobble the project.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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These were either fixed into metal settings or drilled along the prism axis and strung as beads.
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At the end of the lines, he strung his artificial lures, big lures that resembled skipjack tuna when striking the surface of the water.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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Tsimbls used to be strung with thinner strings and less tension, in contrast to the Hungarian-Romanian cymbaloms of today, which use piano wire strung with a barbaric tension of 40-50 kilos per string.
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Beck did this so often that comedian Lewis Black strung them together on The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome.
Mark Green: FOX's Six Tricks: How to Spot the Next Sherrod
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It has been long enough that my memory of the specifics is patchy, but I did like the fact that his journeys felt almost like a variety of short stories strung together with an overall narrative structure, which is something I enjoy.
REVIEW: The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
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Something that implies that the top-string, or 'chanterelle', was, because of its vulnerability, single strung.
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While sternwards whirled unstrungpale beads of foam,
Morning at Sea in the Tropics
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I cautioned calmly as I unstrung my bow, coiling the string.
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She was dynamic, a bit high-strung, of strong character, and completely devoted to the cause.
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Lanterns were strung in the trees around the pool.
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At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
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The speaker strung together a series of jokes.
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At regular intervals along these walls occur little towers, for their defence, reminding one of beads strung on a rosary; the great watch-tower at the gate, with its projecting machicolation, forming the pendent cross, -- the whole serving to guard the town within from the dangers of war, even as the rosary protects the city of Mansoul from the attacks of Sin and Death -- though, sooth to say, since the invention of gunpowder and the Reformation, both the one and the other appear to have lost much of their former efficacy.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar.
Dragonfly in Amber
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She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's professional, he's smooth, he's never late, he's not strung out, his appearance is immaculate.
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The mainstream, or what I call the borderline, bettor isn't interested unless it's strung out," said Jimmy Vaccaro, director of Lucky's sports books.
Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
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These beads are also strung into pendants, necklaces, bracelets or attached to clothing or furnishings and finger rings.
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They strung a net between two palm trees and bobbed about in an energetic game of four-a-side volleyball.
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But our currency is hamstrung by severe structural distortions in both the economic and financial spheres.
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There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
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No one's outside, though a few assorted articles of clothing are strung up on laundry lines.
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Tunisia had strung a quintet across midfield, conceded territory and possession but bit on the counter and led in the eighth minute.
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The reception began under towering oak trees strung with lights, next to a fire pit.
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A suggestion from a friend in Thailand or a new picture in National Geographic would always mean a new pushpin on the map, and the red line would need to be restrung.
Peter Winter: The Great Ride Forward: Motorcycling Southeast Asia
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She said: 'She is a highly strung fox terrier.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across the mountains, in Kosovo, there is 60% unemployment and small brothels are strung along the back streets of almost every town.
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He saw his arrow hit its mark and calmly unstrung his bow before replacing it in his quiver.
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Finnegans Wake
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The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry.
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Bruce wrote and sang all of Cream's toughest material - White Room, Sunshine Of Your Love - with a voice as angelically strung-out as Jeff Buckley and as gutbucket dirty as a 100 year-old-blues preacher.
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Part of the Bandora family, the Orpharion is a smaller wire-strung instrument with a similar scalloped body shape.
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Bishop Wilton is a delightful village, strung linear along a sparkling beck, containing old brick houses in a little valley terraced with sinuous greens.
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Small timers, such as pickpockets, can be easily thwarted by carrying only sturdy, shoulder-strap purses, not carrying obvious camera or laptop computer bags or exposed cameras strung about your person, and by putting your cash out of harm´s way in a little bag hung around your neck and stowed under your shirt.
Mexico City: Biggest city guide for the savvy traveler
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They lay under ropes, strung up to hold saline drips.
Times, Sunday Times
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The anklet on each foot had replicas of 10 wild chamomile flowers strung together.
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We got strung out along the trail at times, so you could have quiet contemplation if you needed it, or walk with the people you liked best.
Times, Sunday Times
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Electricity is now provided free through cables strung along the roads.
Times, Sunday Times
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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Twain strung it out beyond reason, carried away by the exuberance of his own burlesque; but it is a vital and integral part of the story.
Untagged book meme
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Now a third spurned woman has come out to say he strung her along before going off and getting married in secret.
The Sun
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By 1,000 BC the first permanent settlements were established, strung along the shore like a long string of muddy pearls that were placed at a days rowing distance apart.
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The key lies in the fact that the units of meaning, words, can be strung together in different ways, according to rules, to communicate different meanings.
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Who said ballet was only for highly strung wrecks?
Times, Sunday Times
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Aside from a few occasions, we rode in file, all strung out, from the start until Pradollano.
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Two of the rebel leaders were strung up.
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He shook his brown hair out of his eyes as he unstrung his longbow.
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The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry.
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Instead the staff were in relatively unprotected temporary offices strung along the heavy compound walls near one corner at the main gate, the precise corner where the bomb was detonated up against those large walls.
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She's bookish, highly-strung and overeager as the film commences.
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My conscience got so expansive and fine-strung it lamed me across the shoulders to carry it around with me.
THE PRINCESS
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Elise's jewellery is distinguished by large stones such as rose crystal, turquoise and coral, strung together to make chunky chokers and necklaces - often with quirky bits and bobs attached.
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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After that the dogs were strung out afresh, and Julyman "mushed" them on, and brought them abreast of the train of the waiting Oolak.
The Heart of Unaga
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He strung his neckcloth around his neck and retrieved his waistcoat from the chair.
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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Your Election Central Guide To Blogs Covering The 2008 Presidential Election
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Two of the rebel leaders were strung up as a warning to the others.
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Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round!
Lord Kilgobbin
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Hieland limmer, had knockit out my brains, or that I had got you strung up in a halter.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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It read "Jersey guys rule" and had a cartoon picture stick figure guy with a marlin strung up on the dock with a beer in hand.
Joey From The Dock
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Further back in female evolutionary history, being constantly anxious, insecure and highly strung was vital to the survival of the female.
Times, Sunday Times
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They would originally have been strung together in necklaces.
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Long sentences with subclauses loosely strung together and lots of words in apposition likewise suggest that meaning can be continually modified rather than structured into discrete differential units.
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His subjects include the rugged, interior domesticity of Kgoro, a rock-circled site where laundry is strung on a line like lanterns.
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Always store bead necklaces strung on silk or cotton flat because these threads stretch over time.
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Tiny houses were strung out along our route, framed in their verdant patch of coffee, banana and vegetables.
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The archer strung his bow and aimed an arrow at the target.
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Indeed, seven tracks in, Give Up the Ghost – a mellow and mantric song strung on acoustic guitars and announced by birdsong – gives a hint of what might have been.
Radiohead: The King of Limbs – review
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It winds up through rolling hills with stands of poplar trees, distant views of lakes and snowy mountain peaks strung along the horizon.
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As an outsider Joe Bloggs member, Liberal Youth appears to be run be people ‘playing’ politics whilst being totally hamstrung by execs, committees & antiquated decision making structures.
What’s with da Yoof?
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Over by the gate the spirea had ventured into showering sprays exhaling a shy and fugitive fragrance, and what had been a blur of gray cables strung upon the oaks had begun to bud with emerald and blossom with amethyst -- the wisteria was a-borning.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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They were simple conversations, ultimately hamstrung by translation.
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She didn't dare fly with all the clothes lines strung across the alley, she could get stuck and hurt, then they would catch her and hurt her more.
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The words that are recognizable are not strung together in a coherent way.
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The people responsible should be strung up and horsewhipped and I will personally volunteer for the task.
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So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.
The Lady Paramount
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Hop to It bines, oast Hops grow on 20-foot-long plants called bines that climb a trellis of twine and wire strung from tall poles.
Week in Words
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Everywhere paint was chipping, wood was cracking, piles of putrid garbage were collecting, and laundry lines were being strung anywhere it was possible to do so.
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When you stand and look down at the seed bed you see butterfly shapes strung along a black pipe, for the water has gently washed the ground into four linked circles at each irrigation point.
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All exciting looking heddles and raddles and shuttles and all strung up and ready to weave me a carpet and I was sorely tempted.
What I did buy and what I nearly bought...
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Others can decipher the calendar and the lives of the saints, can sign their names with tolerable facility, and can make the simpler arithmetical calculations with the help of the stchety, a little calculating instrument, composed of wooden balls strung on brass wires, which resembles the "abaca" of the old Romans, and is universally used in Russia.
Russia
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Worse, so many doctors, scientists, and lab technicians had been drafted into military service that civilian operations were hamstrung.
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It is what I call the strung-along type, the type of continuity, contiguity, or concatenation.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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a Christmas tree strung with tinsel,candles,presents,etc.
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His arrows were at his side and a lute was strung over his back with its bent neck protruding over his shoulder.
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He strung his gun up on the wall.
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Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play.
Archive 2009-05-01
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I've carried a shovel, crowbar, heavy "rammer," a dozen insulators on an average (strung round my shoulders with raw flax) - to say nothing of soldiering kit, tucker-bag, billy and climbing spurs -- all day on a telegraph line in rough country in New Zealand, and in places where a man had to manage his load with one hand and help himself climb with the other; and I've helped hump and drag telegraph-poles up cliffs and sidings where the horses couldn't go.
Children of the Bush
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The conventual buildings are strung out along a narrow ridge above the water, supported but also overshadowed by solid rock.
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Oh absolutely, he does actually mean well, he's just hamstrung by a severe shortfall in the social skills department.
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Even with three or four episodes strung together and some filler material, it still barely reaches 70 minutes.
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a Christmas tree strung with tinsel,candles,presents,etc.
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Such diplomatic nuances reflect the highly strung relationship between the two countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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It countermands any specious defences of appropriation when applied to marginal culture that pivot on the double standard, allowing us to point to the precise effects of misrepresentation and discrimination that are resultant from the appropriation, and allows us to challenge the appropriation on a level of legtimacy that is not hamstrung by an implicit privileging.
More on Cultural Appropriation
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Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
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Smith's fearsomely focused narratives and majestically brutal accompaniment are alternately highlighted or hamstrung by perverse and frustrating production decisions.
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He was by nature a shy man who could at times be highly strung.
Times, Sunday Times
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Near the conference centre it is strung with wreaths and garlands of homemade flowers, created from plastic bags, paper plates and wrapping paper.
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The narrative is as tightly strung as piano wire.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may have been Shakespeare fatigue, but the scene between Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet, played as a strung-out Eastender with Blade Runner hair, was for significant periods pure garble, to be endured rather than enjoyed.
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For this the fat already obtained from the buffaloes was the very thing; and a small tin cup which Basil had saved from the wreck (it had been strung to his bullet-pouch), enabled them to melt the gum, and apply it hot.
Popular Adventure Tales
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Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung.
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Half a century of romance is actually just a vast collection of five-minute love affairs between the same people, strung closely together.
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She's high-strung, suspicious and full of moral rectitude.
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The side chapels were deserted, save for an elderly aristo woman who knelt on an embroidered hassock, chanting her rosary as she strung the beads along the string.
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Along with the tree, the main thoroughfare through Mountmellick will be a far brighter place, as rows of lights are strung all along the street.
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On top of that, the couple - John the nice passive accommodator to Deb's high-strung perfectionism - are going through marital problems that neither of them are able to articulate.
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Ben Nevis is a nice mountain a little more than halfway down the Great Glen, that ancient diagonal slash that runs southwest from Inverness to the sea, along which are strung Loch Ness, Loch Lochy, and Loch Linnhe.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: May 2006 Archives
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And the pipe is ever dropping honey and the lyre's strings are ever strung.
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When I was eight or nine, he set me up with his small, nylon-strung guitar, and showed me the chords and how to read tablature.
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There were colourful butterflies, moths, monkeys and lizards and for visitors all this wonderful wildlife could be seem from walkways strung high in the air from the upper branches.
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Two of the rebel leaders were strung up as a warning to the others.
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Other details of Time's style, including strung-out attributive adjectives (bahuvrihi, to linguists), puns (paronomasia), and inverted word order (anastrophe) are also described in the Introduction, which one could only wish were more detailed.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
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She wouldn't jump up and screech every time the door slams if she'd been as used to noises as Ma is, and this talk about her nerves bein 'all unstrung is just plain silly – and as for her not sleepin' at nights, she sleeps as sound as any of us.
The Second Chance
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Words thus strung together fall on the ears like music.
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The archer strung his bow and aimed an arrow at the target.
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Warning notices were strung out along the motorway.
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I strung the lights, and wove them in and out of branches.
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What are the ladder-like strings strung from the three masts?
Giudecca at the End of the 19th Century
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But then rivalry between highly strung tenors (or sopranos ) is hardly new.
Times, Sunday Times
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Petite, innocent Shirley was naïve, high-strung, and terribly afraid of soiling her spotless reputation.
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Looms can be restrung for future projects with cotton string.
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Roofs were hung from supports strung lacily above instead of being supported by pillars from beneath.
The Hour of the Gate
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Most of Canada's population is strung out along its 5525-mile border with the United States.
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He was a difficult man - high-strung and unpredictable, at times nearly hysterical.
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I was willing to bet she'd arrived in the minivan now sitting frumpily among the other vehicles pulled up to the wire strung between white posts to separate the gravel parking lot from the grass of the churchyard.
Grave Surprise
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Her agile fingers began working like mad as they strung various wires and chords expertly through the holes.
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The 200-km stretch of Burgundy vineyards strung along the western flank of the north - south Saône valley provides many examples of complex local relationships between soil type and wine quality.
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The carrying away of the crojack and the blowing away of the mizzen-lower-topsail gave me freedom to see and aim, and when the tiny messengers from my rifle began to spat through the canvas and to spat against the steel of the yard, the men strung along it desisted from passing the gaskets.
CHAPTER XLVI
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The early, undercapitalized months of the company were difficult for Young, who felt hamstrung by his lack of resources.
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It concerns a highly strung, ambitious control freak who throws a Hallowe'en fancy dress party to impress her boss.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the further wall was an alcove whose curtains, bestrung with pearls, were let down and I saw a light issuing therefrom; so I drew near and perceived that the light came from a precious stone as big as an ostrich egg, set at the upper end of the alcove upon a little chryselephantine couch of ivory and gold; and this jewel, blazing like the sun, cast its rays wide and side.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A seminar at Edinburgh University's veterinary center focuses on educating people on the correct way of interacting with highly-strung avians from macaws to budgies.
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Is there anything more cringeworthy than a series of unfunny childhood anecdotes and blatant sexual references strung together in a monotone drawl?
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Sandra was a dealer lacking in professional experience, who had a highly strung temperament.
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A traditional Bermuda kite comprises a strung wooden frame, onto which are pasted sheets of brightly coloured tissue paper.
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They strung these pearls tightly.
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Strides have been made, she said, but civilian agencies remain hamstrung by bureaucratic rules that make it impossible to spend money quickly.
Gates defends new Afghan war strategy
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These visceral shoot-outs, in buildings of super-realistic detail, are strung together by plot-development scenes in hand-drawn comic-strip style.
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Unfortunately, there's a dirty cheater willing to do anything to win, even if that means shafting the dean's high-strung, drug-addicted genius son.
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The few that may have fled from the provinces would have been leaderless since all the provincial officers were bowstrung by the Sultan's prearranged orders.
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She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
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The town was strung out along the shoreline, the pastel-colored buildings reminded me of a child's blocks.
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There's no conductor; she directs them herself… and she's strung her Strad with gut, and plays it with a classical bow.
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There are bright spots, particularly the fishing villages strung along the coast from Crail to Elie.
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In two days, however, it would be lit with lanterns, thrust out on jutting poles from the bordering, clifflike house and strung with garlands and flags.
Cinnamon Roll
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She strung the yellow measuring tape around my stomach first, making little notes in a green notepad.
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There were large palm fronds strung around the village to protect it from evil and to cleanse any evil person who entered the village.
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But strong performances are hamstrung by staging problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guards rushed into his cell and strung him up.
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Wouldn't the unity of all things come to you, and wouldn't you chirrup like a bird, and buzz like a bee, and turn imaginary somersaults and dance and sing, and feel like cutting up "didoes," and talk a little high strung, and be chipper with the lowliest and level with the highest?
Brook Farm
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They strung up some lanterns among the trees.
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The monetarists are hopelessly hamstrung by their fixation on narrow money.
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Buildings were strung out on the north side of the river.
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‘Listen, she's just a little high-strung at the moment,’ he explained, gesturing lightly towards Sydney.
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Now, perhaps, we won't even be able to keep them in our inside pockets, but should keep them strung on a lanyard around our necks where they can be seen by both the police marksmen and the potential muggers who would steal them.
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Everyone else would sleep on the lower deck in hammocks that were strung from one side rail to the other side rail of the lower deck.
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Most of Canada's population is strung out along its 5525-mile border with the United States.
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What he said at the meeting strung her nerves up.
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Low-lying nylon-strung verdure cohabited the same space as vocal powwows, a move straight out of the Neutral Milk Hotel gratuity bible.
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Her aunt on one side of her, and Mr. Stephens on the other, did all they could to soothe her, and at last the weary, overstrung girl relapsed into something between a sleep and a faint.
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Instead, it's a collection of riffs strung together, with some hot guitar playing.
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Together, they chopped down the Christmas tree, set it up in the parlor, hung the ornaments, and strung popcorn to hang on the piney branches.
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Across the water the grand York Road houses are set back, strung along a hillside skyline, spacing out as you go.
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The road will bring trade, and better access to health care and the outside world, to the villages strung along the banks of the Panjsher River as it courses through steep gorges and ravines from the Hindu Kush mountains.
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In a brief moment of inspiration, I strung some string from the deck to the garage, sliced up some orange and green garbage bags into ribbons and tied them to the line.
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Above, power lines hang, their criss-crossed cables dangling like an unstrung bow.
Some Will Leave
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At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
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Buildings were strung out on the north side of the river.
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We walked on until we had a commanding view of the upper gulch and the crosses strung out in a long line.
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The Brazilian fans' samba rhythms may be loose, but when it comes to their national team, they are incredibly high-strung and impatient.
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The Belembautuyan, made from a hollow gourd and strung with taut wire, is a stringed musical instrument native to Guam.
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Massa Randall had told her not to go nowhe 'bout dat boat, but some people is sorta high strung like en dey go off anyhow no matter bout de whip.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
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The village was festooned with flowers and vines had been strung from house to house.
Times, Sunday Times
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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Apparently believing this was a real whopper of an idea, he wrote 10 meandering sequences and strung them together into a film.
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A third was fingering some sort of instrument, a kind of zither or dulcimer with lengths of catgut strung along two axes, one set perpendicularly above the other.
Son of a Witch
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She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first bowstring is a very heavy and very long one so the bow can be strung just by slipping the long string on without flexing the bow.
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He nodded in agreement, his bow unstrung and resting on his back.
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Boykin and Payne said Wilson then grabbed a white plastic bag and pulled out a bottle of sleeping pills and a G-string made from Pez candies strung together.
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Borg liked his rackets strung at 80 lb pressure, which was incredibly tight, almost impossible to achieve without breaking a string or twisting the wooden frame.
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Currently, the officers must cover Nunavik's 14 communities, strung along 250,000 kilometres of coastline.
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They were all strung up over the show of wire - walking.
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On the wall adjacent to the targets, hung unstrung bows of every kind - longbows, short bows, recurves and compounds, even a crossbow - and beside them hung quivers full of arrows.
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During the day, Team Cobra dug foxholes, strung wire, and filled sandbags, because site defense is never complete.
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It winds up through rolling hills with stands of poplar trees, distant views of lakes and snowy mountain peaks strung along the horizon.
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This war has greatly demoralised and discredited the governing class in Great Britain, and if big masses of unemployed and unfed people, no longer strung up by the actuality of war, masses now trained to arms and with many quite sympathetic officers available, are released clumsily and planlessly into a world of risen prices and rising rents, of legal obstacles and forensic complications, of greedy speculators and hampered enterprises, there will be insurrection and revolution.
What is Coming?
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Or maybe you can think of some frenetic, high-strung, wiry, squirrelly people.
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Come to think of it, both men are low-income stick-in-the-muds, hamstrung by past women, unable to escape dark, stifling homes, and psychologically unstable.
