Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: strung
IPA transcription: [stɹ'ʌŋ]
Pronunciations of strung
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: strung
    Meaning: that is on a string; "keys strung on a red cord"
Usage examples
  • She will wear her pearls--she'll be strung with them from head to foot.
  • Half a dozen of the finest fish he took out and strung upon a forked twig.
  • Comrade Jackson is essentially a Sensitive Plant, highly strung, neurotic.
  • He strung his bow, fitted an arrow to it before I knew where I was, and drew it to the head as if he was going to shoot me.
  • 'I grant you, on the whole, they are better than they were, but the Service is no place for highly strung boys like this one.
  • A young lady, in the act of tormenting a guitar strung about her neck by a couple of yards of blue ribbon, is not half so engaging.
  • And you like Beaufort because he's so unlike us." He looked about the bare room and out at the bare beach and the row of stark white village houses strung along the shore.
  • But what of the others that followed, losing their boats by the score? Well could we see them and hear them, strung down that desolate shore. What of the poor souls that perished?
  • She found herself strung to her highest pitch of excitement by the air raids, which in the midst of their terrors had the singular effect of exciting many people and filling them with an insane recklessness.
  • Percussion Caps.--Caps may be carried very conveniently by means of a ring, with two dozen nipple-shaped beads, made of some metal, strung upon it; each bead being intended to be covered by a percussion-cap.
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