Word: strung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while two courts over, No. 1 Chris Clayton had just lost his second set in a match that required the skills of football, baseball and tennis combined. Clayton’s match had proceeded at a snail’s pace with stupendously long points that had the audience strung out and quivering with excitement and the players—especially Clayton’s opponent, Branko Kusmanovic—wheezing and gasping for breath.Clayton had won the first set, 7-6, in as much time as it had taken most of the other matches to wrap up.The points were...
...Zhao, his fellow miners called him -- a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner's lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China's Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. "Many of them are very young--just boys," Zhao says, pausing to light...
Hickenlooper doesn't feel so obligated, and he isn't offering any theories about the string of events that have strung Denver out for months, diverting cocktail chatter away from the usual Range Rovers, real estate, skiing and where to get the best carrot juice. Major crime is down, the 2008 Democratic National Convention is coming to town, and the polls have been kind, so the mayor says he's feeling fine. He does remark that even "with all this bad news, people still like to live here...
...said. “He’s a really well-rounded player who can do a lot of things for us.” For a while, NJIT controlled the play in the fourth frame. Though the Crimson took the first three points of the game, the Highlanders strung together a series of kills to open up a 16-11 gap. After a timeout, Harvard turned the tables on NJIT, going on a 12-4 run to establish a 23-20 lead. The Crimson escaped tie scores at 24 and 28 and captured a 30-28 victory...
...year of a degree in finance and economics and wants to study abroad, says he has lost all faith in Bangladesh's leaders-in "the way they talk, the way they express themselves, the way they act like kids, the way they don't compromise." Nearby, beneath election posters strung across a street and fluttering in a gentle breeze, Nazrul Islam, a father of three, agrees. Nazrul sells flags for a living. The past few months have been tough going-the unrest has halved his earnings to about $4 a day as fewer people have dared to venture outside...