string together

Idioms  

1. Compose, assemble, as in There's more to devising an effective slogan than stringing together some words. This expression alludes to threading beads on a string. [First half of 1800s]

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string together

“The Nordschleife allows you to string together corners in a way that you don’t memorize them so well, like you do on a normal test track in a shorter space,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

But, while competition across the league might be tougher, inconsistency has also been a feature of this year's Premier League as many teams struggled to string together sustained periods of good form.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

We string together fragments to make sense of the senseless, Thien observes, “searching backwards for a cause.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

His declining ability to generate a comprehensible sentence, much less string together a coherent argument, will raise serious concerns.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2024

Sure, we can’t change what happened, but if we can string together enough clues, we can prove that whatever nightmare has befallen us, we could have stopped it, if only we had been smart enough.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman