How to Use string along in a Sentence

string along

verb
  • The show is strung along by archival content.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • Church bells rang out and black bunting was strung along buildings.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Or will we just get strung along, like so many shows have done to us in the past?
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Small white lights strung along the ceiling evoke a starry sky.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 4 May 2020
  • Fairy lights strung along the awnings of each business are twinkling.
    — Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Lights strung along the promenade form shapes of the town's lifeblood.
    — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But an audience can’t be strung along for two-plus hours on that alone.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Lights are hung on trees, sometimes in the windows and even strung along roofs.
    — Megan Stein, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Most notable is the dan bau, a single silk string along a bamboo tube.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Fairy lights were strung along the outside the church, and small plastic tealights were handed out at the door.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Boeing's airline customers, strung along for months, have lost patience.
    — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2019
  • The song’s melody is straight as anything -- one syllable to a beat, quarter-notes all strung along in a row.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2017
  • But all of the residents in towns strung along the lake’s southern edge know the resulting ash as black snow.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Then there’s the transmission system — those big high towers with lots of cables strung along them.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps the mere promise of future tax cuts is enough to string along an otherwise calm stock market.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The historic downtown is strung along a few blocks of a divided Route 66.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 15 June 2018
  • Above them, flags from Latin American countries are strung along the ceiling.
    — Meg Anderson, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Sure enough, Dick took off with the other packhorses stringing along behind him.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • My favorite place on Earth is up a rutted dirt road that strings along a creek in southwest Colorado.
    — Peter Heller, Outdoor Life, 17 Feb. 2020
  • There’s a reason they’re strung along restaurant patios and hung for wedding receptions.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
  • Kim has strung along the president with flowery, flattering love letters.
    — Doyle McManus, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
  • Hundreds of baskets holding young oysters called spat are strung along a line that floats on the surface and sways like a long black snake in the water.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These strands act like long highways stretching between the clusters, with thousands of galaxies strung along them.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • This forces you to install the camera close by a power outlet or string along an extension cable to reach the device.
    — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Banks can make an exception to the 90-day rule, especially when you’ve been strung along like this by a business.
    — The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
  • Not asking me out, of course, just stringing along a purposeless conversation.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 2 Sep. 2024
  • That also meant that some travelers who did not live near ports were strung along for days as the line continued to postpone departure dates.
    — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Spooled up inside our devices, wrapped around our walls, strung along our streets, millions of tons of thin metallic threads do the job of electrifying the world.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 14 July 2022
  • From a distance, the building looks a bit like an isolated prison, with high walls and barbed wire strung along the roof to keep monkeys from breaking solar panels.
    — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • One mobile, a cluster of white leaf shapes strung along long horizontal arcs, has the aloof grace of an albino peacock, turning with a gavotte rhythm.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

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