strung up

adjective

1. informal.
   postpositive tense or nervous

Example Sentences

The ghostly story tells the tale of a sailor murdered by three criminals whose bodies were strung up on a hanging gallows as a warning to passing travellers.

From BBC

In its place, they strung up a banner decrying the "selfish acts of vandalism".

From BBC

The woman appeared to be in a daze, and she slumped down into a chair under the bright lights strung up to illuminate the makeshift field clinic.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump has suggested Byrd should face extra-legal execution, complaining, "if that were on the other side, the person that did the shooting would be strung up and hung."

From Salon

On Valentine’s Day, Melissa Torres strung up red tinsel hearts around a shallow pool at her workplace, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. She and her colleagues were arranging a romantic encounter of sorts, and the stakes were high.

From New York Times