strung
verb
simple past tense and past participle of string.
well-strung
-
a word derived from
strung.
Example Sentences
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The surprise, with this well-strung two-part documentary, was how few cynics there were.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2012
The man of hard, healthy, well-strung nerves can scarcely imagine the real distress which men of sensitive nerves endure from ill-regulated noise—how they literally quiver and shiver p. 254under it.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
When a cat is hungry the system is weak, the mind is dull, and the nerves so far from being well-strung that she will do anything sooner than hunt.
From The Domestic Cat by Gordon Stables
The ablest lexicographers define it as 'strong, well-strung, full of nerve,' whereas, in ordinary parlance, it has come to signify the very opposite of these.
From At Last by Marion Harland
Before the threshold was a group of men, whose iron and well-strung muscles, whose short and Herculean necks, whose hardy and reckless countenances, indicated the champions of the arena.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
