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STRUNG
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
That is on a string
Example:
keys strung on a red cord
Classified under:
Participle:
string (thread on or as if on a string)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb string
Context examples:
If you do, I'll call a miners' meeting and see you strung up to the nearest tree. As you said, this is not California.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his parched and swollen throat and tongue.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
What intolerable dulness to sit listening to the ticking of the clock; and watching Miss Murdstone's little shiny steel beads as she strung them; and wondering whether she would ever be married, and if so, to what sort of unhappy man; and counting the divisions in the moulding of the chimney-piece; and wandering away, with my eyes, to the ceiling, among the curls and corkscrews in the paper on the wall!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I determined to say nothing about the former to my wife, for she is a nervous, highly strung woman, and I had no wish that she would share the unpleasant impression which had been produced upon myself.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I dined on what they called "robber steak"—bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire, in the simple style of the London cat's meat!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The extended Himalayas, also known as the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) area, includes several of the world’s highest mountains that are strung out over 3,600 kilometres across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
She read to him much from "The Princess," and often he saw her eyes swimming with tears, so finely was her aesthetic nature strung.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“It is a pretty piece of yew, and well strung,” said Johnston with a twinkle in his deep-set gray eyes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His eager face still wore that expression of intense and high-strung energy, which showed me that some novel and suggestive circumstance had opened up a stimulating line of thought.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And as for me—the poor string upon which these beads are strung—I dare scarce say another word about myself, lest this, which I had meant to be the last word of a chapter, should grow into the first words of a new one.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
