on a string
Example Sentences
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Kanchan Narayan, 44, uses a damp cloth-wrapped bottle hung on a string, cooling the drinking water inside via evaporation.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
“Obviously, you can’t do it individually by yourself. It has to be five guys on a string, communication, always at an all-time high.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
These nucleosomes connect like beads on a string and fold into chromatin fibers.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
The display also featured Dahl's personal set of boules, along with his own invention of a magnet on a string, which Dahl used for picking up each boule.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
I grabbed the pen that was hanging on a string next to the sign-up sheet and wrote my name on a blank line.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
