Example Sentences

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“He is stringing us along,” he said of the Russian leader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 19, 2025

“Stringing power lines is stringing power lines,” Keefe said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2021

Three popular gals from different cliques join forces for revenge after discovering that the school stud is stringing them along.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2019

"The recipe to winning Super Bowls is stringing successful drafts together again and again," Pace said.

From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 9, 2015

But she's running her own game, and if she is stringing Ferguson that's her business, and if she thinks a good bit of him that's her business, too.

From The Two-Gun Man by Seltzer, Charles Alden