WordNet
v. set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series; "the houses were strung out in a long row" [syn: spread out]
Usage examples of "string out".
On the day before the fair started, Homer went up to Miss Terwilliger's with the sheriff to see them take her ball of string out of the house.
Rhiow lifted the paw that had plucked the gate-string out, found it ten times bigger, the claw an inch-long talon.
Violet turned to her baby sister and brushed a small scrap of string out of her hair, something her mother used to do all the time.
Then he tied string to the cardboard and led the string out a hole in the side of the box and fastened it to the string he tied around the box.
Carefully she laid the string out on the floor in bights, measuring them on her forearm.
He plucked that control string out as he named it, held it hooked behind one claw, and a series of strings in the matrix ran bright golden as he activated them.
Im thinking that the way to keep you in bed is to string out my autobiography.
They were strung out pretty well, and Roland thought he and his friends could reasonably hope they'd string out even more once they reached open desert.
Lifting a string out, she closed the lid and stood by the chest, running the string through her fingers.
Within three years the caravan would string out for a hundred miles behind us when we moved.