How to Use strung out in a Sentence

strung out

adjective
  • And only one broke the tape each race, with the rest strung out far around the track.
    — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 18 June 2019
  • Many of my childhood friends were headed to prison or strung out on drugs.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • There were these Christmas lights all strung out, and tables with food.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There is a buffalo strung out to dry outside and a tall stack of deer legs at the door.
    — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The only color comes from clotheslines strung out over the valley.
    — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Dozens of the birds crest the ridges alone, in pairs, strung out in groups that punctuate the sky like ellipses.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Judging from the work on view, that means nobody who looks too strung out, nobody smoking.
    — Travis Diehl, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The problem is we’re all strung out, pushed to the limit, there’s just no energy left.
    — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2020
  • Doing it on the phone, by text or email can string out that process by hours, and perhaps take up the bulk of a workday.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The others seemed to be a bit more spacious, more strung out, maybe even a bit more singer/songwriter-y.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Residents said Russian troops seemed high on power or strung out with fear.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • In another five hours, he would be strung out, hurting for another hit.
    — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Inside the room, officers found a rope tied to the framework of a bed, which strung out across the the balcony.
    — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In the '60s, a lot of soldiers were coming home from Vietnam strung out.
    — Bruce Tomaso, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Andre then drops Franklin in front of a house where young people and mothers with children are strung out.
    — Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The narrator does not realize until too late how strung out the woman is.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The Raptors could string out their core through the next few seasons and attempt to keep its playoff streak alive.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 17 July 2019
  • He was too strung out to be relied on for anything except helping a sick friend through withdrawal.
    — John Otis, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • And you could be strung out for months before a decision is made about whether an appliance will be replaced.
    — Lew Sichelman, courant.com, 26 July 2019
  • Did Whitney miss her father’s funeral because she was strung out on drugs?
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Here on that sofa is the white woman in those movies, waiting for, strung out on, Black male attention.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Sometimes Mac strings out a narrative in which the songs fit in, almost like a musical.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • But on Saturday night, Ashton was all strung out on adrenaline with no show to play.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 11 June 2019
  • There still doesn’t appear to be any end in sight as the case has strung out to become the longest in Georgia’s history.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Families strung out their clothes hoping the blistering post-storm sun would dry them out and get rid of the unmistakable odor of mold.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Her mother, Stacy, was too high on prescription opioids, drunk on vodka or strung out on heroin to care.
    — David Kelly, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Dip a giant bubble wand with a fibrous string into the mixture until it is fully immersed and slowly pull the string out.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The pumice is strung out in long streamers, suggesting it has been smeared and distorted by ocean currents and weather as the pumice floats along the ocean surface.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2016
  • The North African war was being waged mostly along coastal areas, where Axis airfields and bases were strung out.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Indiana strung out the play and linebacker Isaiah Jones met Bernard at the 34-yard line.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026

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