How to Use stringed in a Sentence
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His teenage son, John Wesley, worked as a clerk who tuned stringed instruments.
—Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
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The hour-and-a-half jam sessions comprise primarily ukuleles, along with stringed instruments such as the bass and slide guitar.
—Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
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Modern readers are more intelligent, but just for the stragglers, a zither is a flat, stringed instrument, like a guitar with a shallower sound box and no neck.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
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Nearly every house is decked out in holiday paraphernalia, from scores of stringed lights to glowing figures of angels, snowmen and toy soldiers.
—Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021
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The researchers compared their measurements from the Stradivari harp with other tree ring sequences measured from stringed instruments.
—Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 8 June 2022
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Yes, the legendary McCabe’s Guitar Shop sells stringed instruments.
—Julia Wick, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
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Prior to his evening rounds, Killer Mike was seated comfortably in his Atlanta home, donning a black t-shirt and a stringed pair of Apple headphones for the first part of our conversation.
—Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 June 2023
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The singer posted a series of photos dressed in a pink and orange stringed bikini, a colorful floral beach coverup and a straw hat on Instagram Saturday to celebrate her 52nd birthday.
—Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
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Those influences are obvious in the cafe’s look, decorated with Mexican earthenware and a stringed Middle Eastern instrument called an oud.
—Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
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Community MusicWorks operates in areas of the state where K-12 students might not otherwise be able to afford to play stringed instruments.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2025
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Initial offerings include an all-too-timely show about young immigrants as well as several productions that, as part of the Violins of Hope project, will use stringed instruments saved from destruction during the Holocaust.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
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The six-minute quasi-title track works as a centerpiece, its compressed qanun (a stringed Middle Eastern instrument, played here by the acclaimed Syrian musician Maya Youssef) looping in the background as electronic pulses, foreboding pianos, and disembodied voices swirl around the mix.
—Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
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