strung up

adjective

1. informal,  (postpositive) tense or nervous

Example Sentences

As the nights draw in and festive lights are getting strung up, some of us might start to hope - or dream - of seeing some Christmas snowfall.

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“It had been difficult to attract funding. So our camp for eight people was mostly what Peter and I scrounged from a US Air Force base near Istanbul: part of a canvas mess tent, some discarded cot mattresses, torn parachutes we strung up for shade.… Without refrigeration in temperatures that reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit, most mornings we lived on little more than beans, rice, tomatoes, olives, and watermelon for three months.”

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He’s been kicked out of a tiki bar, ridden on a city bus full of Santas that was pulled over by police, and late one night in 1995, he was strung up to a light pole on San Francisco’s Market Street.

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If anyone deserves to be strung up for their eco sins, it’s the Drusilla Clacks of climate activism who were traitors to their own cause.

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In one expletive-filled message which included an extreme racial slur, he wrote, "they should all be strung up or shot".

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