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be strung out

Phrasal Verb with string
 
 
/strɪŋ/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle strung)

Definition

If a group of things or people are strung out somewhere, they are in a line with spaces between them: There were chairs strung out across the room.
(Definition of be strung out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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