strings

Example Sentences

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Untying the strings from the nails and bushes, I used the short pieces to tie half of an apple to the trigger of each trap.

From Literature

Ida went and sat behind the loom, moving her hands across the strings, weaving her threads in and out and around each other.

From Literature

On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal

The album’s opener, “What Can I Say,” is a rollicking, danceable breakup song fortified by a sharp backbeat, funky bassline and synthesizer strings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Miami came out after the break with more aggression, and Messi briefly pulling the strings, firing another shot just over the crossbar.

From Barron's