Stringing

There's really no point in stringing them along -- unless you're secretly Batman or something. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then, stringing is a hard life because it requires literally stringing together enough small gigs to pay some bills. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The tiny children had all been busy for two days past in stringing holly-berries together; and these bright scarlet garlands, hanging in festoons from branch to branch, had an exceedingly pretty effect. ❋ Mary Anne (1871)

The party was a premiere for Days of the Strange, a Poor Specimen title stringing Stranger Than Fiction seconds with "new bangers" from the past few months, and so wasn't actually the Kai Neville debutante ball that will come to pass in September when Kai's maiden effort, The Modern Collective, finally goes public. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My walls went high and I started becoming guilty of committing some of the same heartless acts that had been done to me, namely stringing men along that I was never going to fully commit to, just to avoid the pain of being alone. ❋ Erin Henry (2011)

Apart from the furore caused by the double-strung rackets in the summer of 1977, in general terms stringing was relatively simple to understand. ❋ Jason Goodall (2010)

Short and balding, with a large flattened nose, Bengosian had realized early in his residency that he had no flair for urology and found his true calling stringing together failing regional insurers into giant HMOs. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2004)

It was this passage from Macaulay that led the Editor to Courtenay's Appendix, and it was the literary and human charm of the letters themselves that suggested the idea of stringing them together into a connected story or sketch of the love affairs of Dorothy Osborne. ❋ Parry, Edward A (1901)

Back in the early 1940s before the city bought the electrical system, the idea of stringing colored lights diagonally across Main Street at C.ristmastime originated with A.C. Davis, who was the superintendent of water and lights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was all for conciliatory measures with him after the election, but when he engages in this kind of stringing along, I say drop the hammers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Krugman might want to let at least a couple of those folks who were laid off return for a week or two for part-time fill-in work ("stringing") while he vacations with his lovely wife and cat at his vacation home in St. Croix (a resort in France - if you're from a resort near Rio Linda). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the third year more precise tasks, such as stringing beads, drawing, and painting, will play their part, while at the same time the increased imaginative powers will give attraction to toy soldiers or a toy tea-service. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

When the plants are to be hung on lath they may be wilted before "stringing" or not, at the option of the grower. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)

Wylie was given to "stringing" salesmen and was a hard man to close with, but Hanford smiled confidently. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Retrograde esophagoscopy is sometimes useful for "stringing" the esophagus in cases in which the patient is unable to swallow a string because he is too young or because of an epithelial scaling over of the upper entrance of the stricture. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

And so Betty was "stringing" him along, as Taggart had suggested, until he completed the repairs on the buildings, until he had the ranch in such shape that it might be worked, and then at the end of the year Betty would tell him that his reformation had not been accomplished, and she and Taggart would take legal possession. ❋ Charles Alden Seltzer (1908)

Betty, to use the man's words, was "stringing" him. ❋ Charles Alden Seltzer (1908)

Had it not been for his big, blunt eyes and round, smooth face he might have been suspected of duplicity -- but not by the two men now talking to him; they knew beyond a doubt that John was "stringing" them. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Graffius recommends enlisting the whole family in projects such as stringing popcorn and cranberries. ❋ Unknown (2008)