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string out

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string out something
1. to be spread in a long, thin line. Most of Canada's population is strung out along its border with the United States. The early fast pace soon strung the field of runners out over more than a mile.
2. to make something continue. Zeb hoped he could string out his vacation as long as possible. The legal process could string this dispute out for years.
See also: string

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Peter was so frightened that he hid, but the birds told him it was only a kite, and what a kite is, and that it must have tugged its string out of a boy's hand, and soared away.
 
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