How to Use strung up in a Sentence

strung up

adjective
  • Some are lynched and strung up for their victims to spit on.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The pair walk under a bunch of guardians who have been strung up, dead, on the wall.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 May 2025
  • Over the past year, a growing number of nets have been strung up.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
  • By evening, more corpses had been strung up from the station’s lampposts.
    — Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • The garland was hung from the rafters with care, as were the jeans shorts strung up by the pair.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Witnesses told police the dog had been strung up by its neck on a leash.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
  • In front of dozens of onlookers, they are strung up to a tree and a fire stoked beneath them.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Be sure to choose a jar that twists shut; otherwise, the lid might pop off while being strung up.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Bernice Worden's body was strung up by the heels in a summer kitchen.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The electric lights strung up on his friend’s support pontoon boat caught fire and were destroyed.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Some hire outside help to get the lights strung up on the tall trees in their yards and in the community.
    — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Someone had strung up nets full of walkers overhead like the world’s ickiest piñatas.
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Nine years ago, progressives wanted James Comey strung up in the public square.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Dinner in the bush with lights strung up at tables among the other guests, who had seen roaring male lions and zebras on their game drive.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • There are also five flotation devices painted like watermelons strung up along the same canal.
    — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Others are more about sustained anxiety or tension, such as feeling nervous and strung up.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Middle classes blossomed, a baby boom ensued, and social safety nets were strung up.
    — Rajiv J. Shah, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Its coastal areas and cayes offer white-sand beaches that promise lazy days at beach bars and hammocks strung up between swaying palms.
    — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • To prepare for labor at home, Ibarra strung up soft yellow lights and laid a mattress on the floor of her living room.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Both feature a congress of folks—friends, fellow artists, doppelgängers—gathered under cafe lights strung up in trees.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
  • After that gnarly incident, she and Jack are eventually captured, and she is strung up by that arm.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
  • Inside were stone benches and mats made from tamarisk twigs, an altar and a heap of cowrie shells apparently once strung up in a curtain across the door.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • Thousands of colorful prayer flags were strung up overhead, and every storefront seemed to be a café or a shop selling gear and souvenirs.
    — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • Tanya reveals that the Powell boy was killed by an ice pick to the back of the head, 8-12 hours before his body was strung up.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In it, oversized titanium petals are strung up from the ceiling, appearing to waft down the club’s grandiose staircase.
    — Violet Goldstone, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
  • No one wants to get their Christmas tree all strung up only to realize the bulbs in the middle section are completely dead.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This would enable the operator to spot targets at longer ranges and see finer detail – for example netting strung up to stop drones.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • The more enterprising strung up clotheslines between palm trees and hung bedsheets for impromptu shelters.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Eventually, Butch breaks free and knocks out the Gimp, effectively hanging him since he’d been strung up.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
  • All the twinkling Christmas lights strung up on homes, trees and businesses across metro Phoenix can inspire holiday cheer in even the grinchiest among us.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024

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