Strings are often used to increase the strength of the structures, such as stay cables in bridges. The string vibrations can affect the stability of the structure. In this paper, a method of a suppressing multi-order string resonance by controlling the length of the string to be continuously time-varying is proposed. The model of the time-varying length string is given. The vibration responses of the timevarying length string are solved by the finite difference method. The suppression effect of the time-varying string length method on the free vibrations and forced vibrations is analyzed. The results show that the controlling of the time-varying length of the string can effectively weaken the free vibration peaks and the forced vibration peaks of the string. It can suppress the multi-order resonance.