to string together
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4.0
- phrasal verb
- /strɪŋ təˈɡɛðər/
:
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- Can you distinguish someone who can string words together and sound like they know what they're talking about from someone who actually does?
- stringing sentences together
- stringing words together
- string together a series
A lifetime is comprised of days strung together into weeks, months and years.
- A lifetime is comprised of days strung together into weeks, months and years.
- Even if this looks like the end of my Picnic at Lake Armington story, the three of us are strung together like beads on a necklace.
- Can you distinguish someone who can string words together and sound like they know what they're talking about from someone who actually does?
- You, if you do those small things, you look back and you go, man, I've come pretty far even in a short time because I've strung those little things together.
- I, I, I have to sort of string words together one at a time.
- But you can string together a few moments of peace so that at least for a few times each day, your mind rests where your feet are.
- So once again, string together what's happening and ask yourself, Dang, why is the dollar being talked about as losing value?
- And they sort of strung her life together on a chronological vector.
- You know, they're, they're trying to string together cliches rather than they don't have that fire in them to tell a unique story.
- When you've got this bimbling old fool in charge in America, in charge in Joe Biden, you know the guy can barely string a sentence together, bless him.
Examples
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In order to create the final report, we need to string together all the data we've collected.
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Documenting their shared convictions on this score, Tarabukin strings together numerous quotations from Spengler's Pessimism.
Academic text (2000) -
I love how the whole album strings together, especially with this song.
Blog text (11) -
But someday, you will string enough moments together to realize you are so strong.
Blog text (32) -
But as soon as I string together these two propositions, one, it is wrong to eat.
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So now we see if he can string two good games together back-to-back.
Blog text (21) -
We need to consider several posts from Rubin to string together this train of thought.
Blog text (12) -
But you can string together a few moments of peace so that at least for a few times each day, your mind rests where your feet are.
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There's a shortage of people who can string words together in a coherent fashion.
Blog text (32) -
Both authors, curiously enough, include and give significant weight to words that other writers have strung together.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
988
2.8
To make something by joining parts, like a model, plan or team
36
3.8
To put beads or objects onto a cord in a line
1
9.9
Join things together in a row, often pieces of text like words or lines
1
5.5
To arrange events and ideas one after another
Antonyms
How Connected
- US
662
1.6
169
2.9
8
4.0
442
1.1
829
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to combine or arrange things in a sequence' is directly built from the constituents: 'string' (a sequence/to thread or link items) plus 'together' (in combination). This voicing follows a common English pattern (verb + together/particle) and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words can readily infer the sense.
Etymology
The phrasal verb string together comes from the image of putting beads on a string so they sit together in a row. So it means 'to join separate things in order', like ideas, sentences, or events.