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strung along

VERB

play with; keep dangling

Synonyms

WEAK

bluff coquet dally deceive dupe flirt fool hoax lead on put one over on take for a ride toy trifle wanton

Antonyms

WEAK

let go release

Example Sentences

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Hurricanes still drive high premiums: 46 of the 50 costliest counties nationwide, mostly strung along the Gulf Coast, count hurricanes as their primary threat, according to the Journal’s analysis of data from price-comparison firm Insurify.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

A Belfast woman who "strung along" a seriously ill man with lies that she would donate her kidney to him has been branded "callous" and "not human".

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

Closer to home we walked for a mile under the bright holiday lights strung along the road at Griffith Park.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

The exchange highlighted in the evidence shows that Cohen felt strung along by Trump, a man who didn’t seem to know, at least in Cohen’s telling, how to define Cohen’s role.

From Slate • May 13, 2024

To get to work, scientists struggled through the mud to the half-finished Tech Area, which housed labs and offices and was surrounded by another fence, nine feet high, with barbed wire strung along the top.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin