strung up
(postpositive) informal tense or nervous
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How to use strung up in a sentence
A young boy stands feet from the strung-up body, at the front of a crowd gathered around the cross.
Islamic Extremists Now Crucifying People in Syria—and Tweeting Out the Pictures | Jacob Siegel | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere had been an incident—American contractors ambushed, their charred remains strung up on bridge.
Colorful banners commemorating Ramadan have already been strung up.
I was "strung up" to a high degree of expectation and listened every moment to hear the panpipes and the Roo-too-too-it.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) JamesWe must spend the rest of the bleak night strung up on this dizzy height.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls | Various
His body was dragged through the streets, and finally strung up before one of the government buildings.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonBige poled our craft out toward the center of the pond while I strung up my rod and put a white miller on the end of the leader.
Lost Pond | Henry AbbottWe found ourselves both glancing at the duck guns strung up under the racks, and then we both laughed and looked foolish. '
The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers
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