Sentence examples for string along from inspiring English sources

The phrase "string along" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is being led or persuaded to do something, either willingly or unwillingly. Example: "The company was stringing their employees along with empty promises of raises."

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string along

verb

To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions.

  • She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.

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There are no more 1's and 0's that you can string along.

The Socialist Party hasn't prepared anything new & will string along with "Solidarity Forever".

He's making it all up so as to string along the Englishman, Captain Meadows.

"I'll string along with your chairman about this being the greatest country," he began.

One wonders how long the human race will string along with its own electrical gifts..

All the cities and major towns, except Lewistown, are lined up like beads on a string along these strips.

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"Don't just keep the person strung along," she said.

They argue that cases could be strung along endlessly and expensively by frivolous appeals if there are no such limits.

She also teases Luther about the real Alice, a string-along that does not please him.

Otherwise, why would Huizenga string him along?

I don't want to string you along.

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