Example sentences for: strings

How can you use “strings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.

  • The priest is surrounded by a circle of masked women, who, upon his command, doff their cloaks, kneel reverentially for a while longer in their G-strings, and then are sent off one by one.

  • About a third of their revenues (on average) now come from the US Treasury (or its state equivalents), along with lots of strings that significantly compromise their independence.

  • Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, one of the better-selling gurus in pop psychology a few years ago, gave this advice in his book, Pulling Your Own Strings: Always deal with people on a first name basis unless they make it clear that they need to be addressed in some other way.

  • I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.


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