String

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.

a violin string

a bowstring

a string of shells or beads

a string of sausages

a string of islands

The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.

a string of successes

Strings and Flarks[:] The two most conspicuous land form patterns in water tracks are fields of tree islands and networks of strings and flarks. The origin of strings and flarks is a controversial subject that has been treated extensively[…]

[…] strings and flarks are again aligned along the contours, but the flarks are much wider and are often drier. Where the flarks are flooded they are curiously reminiscent of a system of terraced paddy fields […]

[…] strings and flarks is scarcely noticeable and it is the intermediate level (relative to the water table) between the higher, drier strings, and the low, wet flarks, which dominates. Such mires have an almost continuous cover of sedges[…]

no strings attached

But he added: "The RDG offer contains more strings than a harp, including some which have never previously been discussed. It also omits significant points that had previously been negotiated."

Many of those that pretend to be great Rabbies in these studies have scarce saluted them from the strings, and the titlepage.

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

The string of his tongue was loosed.

the strings of beans

a single miner is often found pursuing his solitary labours at a string or thin vein of ore

They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.

You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.

It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.

To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper.

For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.