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string out

Stretch, extend; also, prolong. For example, The parade strung out for miles , or The meetings strung out over weeks instead of days . [First half of 1800s]
strung out . Addicted to, stupefied by, or debilitated by drug use, as in She was completely strung out when they found her . [Second half of 1900s]

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Whenever the steers wanted to move they would take the middle of the track single file, and string out mile after mile.

“I guess not,” he said then––looked out the window again, and hove the whole string out of the open window and into the slip.

His crews were known as hard crews; they "hired out for tough hands, and it was up to them to play their string out."

She absently watched the moving dot take form and sharply string out into a line of riding men.

To surmount this, John was to go down to the lane, taking the kite with him, while Jem lowered the string out of the broken pane.

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