When Yorimasa received his appointment, he strung his bow carefully, and carefully honing his steel-headed arrows, stored his quiver, and resolved to mount guard that night with his favorite retainer.
The boys plucked bamboo stalks, and strung on their branches bright-colored ribbons, tinkling bells, and long streamers of paper, on which poetry was written.
Macdonald's men, their prisoners under guard between two long-strung lines of horsemen, were proceeding at a trot.
These fellers has strung their cussed bob-wire fences crisscross and checkerboard all around there up the river, and they're gittin' to be right troublesome.
Fifteen miles up the river from the grand white house Macdonald had strung his barbed wire and carried in the irrigation ditch to his alfalfa field.
But what can yo do with one umbrella, And a damp gel strung on the arm of a fella?
The people walked this time, strung out in a long line between the trees and the water, where the light was a little better and the way more open.
They were all perfectly naked, tall and slender and large-eyed, their muscles strung for speed and agility rather than massive strength.
Leading the way towards the back of the guard-house, he took down a bunch of keys strung to a hook on the wall and with their help opened a cell.
I'd like to see you strung up, you damned villain!
Last night I couldn't sleep for the heat and I strung a hammock on deck.
He had concluded that I was strungup to endure anything he might inflict.
His honor, was attired in a suit of immaculate white duck, with a massive gold chain strung across his vest and a superb diamond pin upon his shirt front.
Tis a very well made book--not a set of independent episodesstrung on the thread of a name or two, but closely interwoven to the climax.
You listen in dread of a tragedy; you hear the totem and multiplex totems of her opponent being scoffed at, strung out one after another, deadly insult after deadly insult.
Opossum hunters had a way of bringing them home strung round their necks; very disagreeable, I should think, but custom, that tyrant, rules it so.
Michael was a highly-strung nice beast, but his value was doubtful; Chinaman was more doubtful still, and it was questionable sometimes whether Jehu would be able to pull anything at all.
I ran to the end of the Cape and watched the little cavalcade--already strung out into remote units--rapidly fade into the lonely white waste to southward.
You feel that there should be one strung through her nose, too.
And as of course it is no sin to kiss a father, it has happened that some of the highly strungvictims have ventured to embrace Papa after he pronounced those all-meaning words, "judgment for the plaintiff.
And then he had been nervous, highly strung from overwork.
Vere was secretly strung up, had been strung up even before she stepped into the launch.
Hermione was strung up to a sort of nervous strength that was full of determination.
Every Lecco in the crew was poised, with his paddle, as tense as a strung bow.
A band necklace of bright beads, strung and designed in simple patterns by their own women, on threads of wild cotton, is their only ornament.
Each had a forked twig like those we used for our juvenile sling-shots, and strung on a wire or twisted bark thread that connected the forks were a dozen little bits of flat tin hammered out of old sardine cans.
The callapos strung out each in the wake of the other drifting around a long turn of smooth, swift water.
At one time half our mules were down, and we strung out over the desert for two miles picking them up.
You've come from where the courthouse and the police take care of you, and if a feller kills your father, sees to it that he's caught and strung up.
The second night I strung the dictograph wire, tapped the telephone, and carried my provisions here.
I strung the wire to the wall and through the hole there, retreated after covering my tracks with dust, and entered in a different place.
Around they went until the horses looked to the naked eye like toys strung on wires.
I swow, I wouldn't marry her if her heart was a solid lump of gold, and every hair of her head strungwith diamonds.
She knew Dolly better than the rest of them did,--knew her highly strung temperament, and feared it, too.
How, by purely physical analysis, are we to account for the fact that the original Clay family of horses were notoriously high-strung and hard to school to rein: whereas the Morgan family were supremely easy to break and groove?
The result is hodgepodge of cross-matched correction, little of which escapes knowing condemnation, and less of which is strung to the keynote of reformative harmony.
The Army of the Ohio was at the time marching toward Chattanooga, and was strung from Eastport by Huntsville to Bridgeport, under the command of General Buell.
I had in Memphis my own and Hurlbut's divisions, and other smaller detachments werestrung along the Memphis & Charleston road.
The ranks were thin and irregular, and we found a stream of people strung from the hospital across Bull Run, and far toward Centreville.
I estimated the enemy's forces, then strung from Vicksburg to Haines's Bluff, at fifteen thousand men, commanded by the rebel Generals Martin Luther Smith and Stephen D.
A young cavalry officer galloped up to the head of a beef trail that strung backward for the better part of a mile, the cattle plodding on wearily, guarded by a dozen or more tired and cross cow-punchers.
On a rise far away he saw a black, slowly moving mass, which, at first, he had taken to be a band of buffalo, but when it strung out he discovered that it was a party of men on horseback.
The small golden droplets which hung from the Frenchman's ears, were made to give way to a more massive ornament of shells, cunningly strung upon a hoop of copper wire.
Then the man in the sled looked round as he strung out the long lash of his short-stocked whip.
And as it descended, a sound like the clipping of teeth came back to the taut strung senses of the onlookers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
