How do you use the word "stringer" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "stringer" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "stringer": He worked as a stringer for several major news services this year. A stringer is a part-time journalist who reports for a paper.

Stringer Meaning

/stɹɪŋə/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounSomeone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

nounSomeone who strings someone along.

Sentence Examples

He worked as a stringer for several major news services this year.

A stringer is a part-time journalist who reports for a paper.

The newspaper hired a local stringer to cover the story.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The newspaper hired a ____ to cover local news stories.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The local newspaper hired a ____ to provide news reports from the remote mountain village this season.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree English string English -er English stringer From string + -er.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Be content to put your trust in honest stringers." — 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus:

"A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door." — 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:

"And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday." — 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:

""Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat." — 1970, Field & Stream, volume 75, number 7, page 76:

"A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days" — 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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