string out
Idioms-
Stretch, extend; also, prolong. For example, The parade strung out for miles , or The meetings strung out over weeks instead of days . [First half of 1800s]
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strung out . Addicted to, stupefied by, or debilitated by drug use, as in She was completely strung out when they found her . [Second half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
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And I think what they were trying to do was to string out and string out the investigation.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024
While it’s worth encouraging folks not to use fireworks amid escalating wildfire danger, they say it’s kind of silly that federal land managers would suggest using aerosol cans of sticky party string out in nature.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023
In C, the ‘%n’ specifier means to save the number of characters written into the format string out to a variable passed to the string format function.
From The Verge • Jul. 4, 2021
But in gaming, numerous incentives exist for multimillion-dollar studios to release games with buggy content rather than delay production further and string out already exorbitant costs.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2020
I started to move my hand slowly, toward the tiny front pocket of my shorts, pulling the piece of silk string out of it without drawing too much attention to myself.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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