How to Use string bean in a Sentence

string bean

noun

• Her boyfriend's a real string bean.
• Cold poached salmon, followed by lamb with potatoes, string beans, and ice cream.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• Both types are made from the same variety of mature green beans (aka string beans or snap beans).
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2025
• With the rich cheeses and meats, these light and tangy string beans are, well, simply delicious.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2024
• Use tongs to grab the noodles and string beans and place into bowl(s), then divide broth among bowls.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 2 Mar. 2017
• Add the frozen string beans (¼ bag per bowl) directly into the pot with the noodles.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 2 Mar. 2017
• Broccoli, string beans, Yukon potatoes and bland chicken breast.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 25 June 2023
• The fruit that ultimately emerges is a pod that looks like a long, thick string bean and contains black seeds.
  — Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• There were purple eggplants, guavas, little kiwis like old men’s heads, kumquats, and string beans.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2018
• Holmes, in those days, was a string bean, six feet tall, 150 pounds, hair still cut in a military buzz.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Green beans - also known as string beans or snap beans - are among the most widely grown and enjoyed vegetables across the world.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
• Rapidly blanching string beans and shocking them in an ice bath preserves their bright green color and pleasant crunch.
  — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2018
• Large planters hold cherry tomatoes, strawberries, bell peppers, string beans, cabbage and kale.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
• The factory first opened in 1925, processing corn, string beans and peas.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025
• Her menus were notoriously spartan, with a heavy emphasis on liver, salt cod and string beans.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2017
• Green bean or string bean casseroles were favorites across the country, but many states also showed interest in corn, broccoli and potato dishes.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• Only this time, Jones wasn’t that string bean who arrived from Jacksonville in the spring of 2017.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2020
• Turkey, string beans, yams, potato salad, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and of course, a little pasta on the side.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
• At dinner a few nights later, Yvonne turned down a pork chop and a second biscuit, contenting herself with string beans and potatoes.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Game of Thrones quite possibly ruined me forever for stories about scrappy little string beans whose heart and brains win against evil forces.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2020
• On the plus side, the image processing did well in spotting the cilantro flakes and string beans, creating sharp contrast lines between the green accents and the rest of the meal.
  — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
• But there are also completely unexpected sights, like edible ferns, exotic chilis, and snake beans, which look like string beans but are about twice the length.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• He was known as a highly skilled grower and easily transformed the red clay of Georgia into rows of tomato, corn, string beans, and tobacco.
  — Marisa Renee Lee, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
• Mark Twain fondly remembered eating succotash, string beans, squirrels, and rabbits on his uncle’s farm.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
• Kaling is a newbie to food prepping, but she’s taken on some tricky recipes and ingredients, cooking sweet potatoes and string beans, chopping up mango chunks and poaching salmon.
  — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 9 July 2018
• Deontay Wilder is awkward but dangerous, a string bean of a heavyweight with a crushing right hand that can change everything in a fraction of a second.
  — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 23 Nov. 2019
• At least a week passed, Smith said, before Etienne delivered some bags of chicken and cans of fruit, string beans and assorted vegetables.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
• In that first season, Antetokounmpo grew two inches and got stronger, beginning his development from a string bean to one of the league's most relentless forces.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2019
• For the Milwaukee Brewers, that pitcher is Josh Hader, a string bean lefty with long hair, glasses, tattoos and a funny uniform number.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2018
• My mom, a Greek farmer who’d immigrated here from an agrarian village, had spent the early years of my childhood growing lush string beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers on the side of our house along the Upper Darby trolley tracks.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 30 May 2018