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Definition of String out
1. Verb. Set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series. "The houses were strung out in a long row"
Lexicographical Neighbors of String Out
Literary usage of String out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"When feeding they string out in a line, diving successively, one after another
until all are down, and returning to the surface with small mussels or fish ..."
2. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"We then pull the string out a little further, slipping this first knot down as
... Now suppose we start by pulling the string out a short way and then stop; ..."
3. Special Report by the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners to the by Board of Railroad Commissioners, Massachusetts (1887)
"You would not pull a string out of line and assume it would hold its position,
neither should you a piece of iron. Q. Now, be kind enough to return to my ..."
4. The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War by Patrick MacGill (1916)
"But it didn't; I 'adn't pulled the string out far enough. "And that's Loos," he
went on, standing on the fire-step and looking up the road. ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1905)
"If pricked by a pin or tooth-pick, it will be found ropy, and will draw or string
out a half inch or so. If the cell has been capped, the capping recedes ..."
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