strung-out
Example Sentences
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The exposed, strung-out convoy remained on the road for weeks and was regularly targeted by Ukrainian partisans.
From Washington Times
David Malukas was coming fast for the leaders, seemingly out of nowhere, late Saturday night after a long rain delay and a strung-out race.
From Seattle Times
There’s a fast-talking salesman, his strung-out wife and their deranged robot vacuum, which has a mind of its own.
From New York Times
One year into the pandemic, the whole strung-out world could probably use some form of H.A.L.T., not least designers charged with producing a vision of a future whose shape is impossible to discern.
From New York Times
Hell’s Kitchen, though, has long been a repository for social maladies — strung-out junkies hanging around the Port Authority, methadone clinics, the pedestrian dead zone at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey.
From New York Times
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