Strand

//stɹænd//

"Strand" in a Sentence (23 examples)

You can feel the worm as a painful strand under the skin.

She twisted a strand of hair around her finger.

Our land, our land, our fatherland, sound loud, o name of worth! No mount that meets the heaven’s band, no hidden vale, no wave-washed strand, is loved, as is our native North, is loved, as is our native North.

Timmendorfer Strand is a well-known beach town.

Life is a web, with every strand connected to every other strand. One species of plant or animal changes, and a whole chain of events can follow involving many other species.

Life is a web, with every strand connected to every other strand.

I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

There, ministering justice, she presides, / and deals the law, and from her throne of state, / as choice determines or as chance decides, / to each, in equal share, his separate task divides. / Sudden, behold a concourse. Looking down, / his late-lost friends AEneas sees again, / Segestus, brave Cloanthus of renown, / Antheus and others of the Trojan train, / whom the black squall had scattered o'er the main, / and driven afar upon an alien strand.

"O say, / what manner of mankind is here? What land / is this, to treat us in this barbarous way? / They grudge the very shelter of the sand, / and call to arms and bar our footsteps from the strand!"

"Would that your king AEneas here could stand, / driven by the gale that drove you to this strand! / Natheless, to scour the country, will I send / some trusty messengers, with strict command / to search through Libya to the furthest end, / lest, cast ashore, through town or lonely wood he wend."

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Grand Strand

A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.

They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.

Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.

In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish.

strand of spaghetti

strand of hair

By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.

strand of truth

The explanation draws equally from other contemporary strands of political and social theory.

She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.

The concept of a combined authority headed by an elected Mayor is a key strand in current transport development, and is driving a new generation of projects such as bringing rail connectivity to Portishead and stations served by the Mid-Cornwall Metro.

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