Sentence examples for string him up from inspiring English sources

A law-enforcement officer who is confronting an evildoer wants to string him up.

Or the rebels will defeat him — and string him up by his toes.

This week he performed for the impeccably bourgeois citizens of Guildford, who 20 years ago would have been ready to string him up for treason.

The British public seemed ready to string him up last week, but the British music industry needs him alive and kicking.

"If he did it, they should string him up," said Patricia Hassler, who owns an antique shop in Monterey, a town with 2,872 residents.

I was 13, watching the news with my parents, and flippantly said to my dad: "When they catch that monster they should string him up".

Probably strung him up with his own meat hooks, left him there for the tiger".

They let him down but, unsatisfied with the suspect's answers, the soldiers strung him up a second time.

Then they attached a rope to a railway trestle and strung him up.

They hit him all the way back to the branch, then strung him up by his wrists for four hours.

Well, the cavalry blame him at first, and that damyankee he all but killed at Appomattox is all for stringing him up.