strand
Example Sentences
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Hours of detailed, and sometimes emotional, debate can be divided into three strands: the moral, the practical and the constitutional.
From BBC
The pipeline hasn’t operated since a spill in 2015, which has stranded offshore production.
The tie of my hair had slipped down again, and I could feel strands sticking to my neck.
From Literature
Even from here I can see the strands of my hair on the pillow, and the narrow indentation running lengthwise down the mattress.
From Literature
Twenty Thai crew members of a cargo ship attacked in the crucial Strait of Hormuz arrived in Thailand on Monday, with three of their colleagues still stranded on the vessel in the Gulf.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
