string along

Verb

Meaning

move or come along

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

string dally gull bluff philander coquet fob follow snow tail trick accompany tag escort convoy
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Antonyms

get release deny bug gravel contradict
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Hypernyms

advance progress go on move on pass on march on

Examples

We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand. . . Leonid Brezhnev

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. Rex Stout

Given French military inferiority in the Middle East and the commanding power of the British armed forces, they at first had little option but to string along with British proposals. Source: Internet

It makes no moral sense to string along a program that winds up screwing even recent beneficiaries as measured by money in vs. benefits out. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Strine Strines string string art string attached string band