stringing up
Example Sentences
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Medical teams triaged evacuees in a car park, wrapping up wounds and stringing up bags of saline for IV drips under tents.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
Turabi was notorious for ripping music tapes from cars, stringing up hundreds of meters of destroyed cassettes in trees and signposts.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
They slept along a main highway, stringing up tarps as a tent.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2019
The solution is an easy one: Simply wash your hands after stringing up the lights, or wear gloves while putting them on.
From Slate • Nov. 27, 2018
There was an untidy-looking corral, and a reel for stringing up slaughtered beeves, and an overturned Red River cart bleached as white as a buffalo skeleton.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
