STRING in a Sentence

Learn STRING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
134 example sentences for STRING, such as:
1. Make a knot at the end of the string.
2. St. Clare had touched the right string.
3. Where the knot is loose the string slips.
4. Her key hung on a string around her neck.
5. The key is hanging on a string by the door.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STRING
string
 n.  a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
 v.  provide with strings
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1  That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She felt that at any moment she would actually hear them break with the same pinging sound a banjo string makes when it snaps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  There was the faintest gleam of triumph in Rhett's eyes as he bent to tie Bonnie's shoe string.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
4  While she spoke she had loosened the string from the parcel in her hand, and now she drew forth a letter which she laid on the table between Miss Bart and herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  But the frock had an original back, very low, with a central triangular section from the waist to a string of jet beads at the neck.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
8  I took a long piece of string from my pocket, and she lifted his head with the spade while I tied a noose around it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
9  The crabs hung on the branches as thick as beads on a string, purple-red, with a thin silvery glaze over them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  "The guv'ner" had made threats to disinherit another of his children also, sister Gwendolen, who had married an Italian marquis with a string of titles and a dueling record.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  And he could string oaths with the facility of a maiden who strings beads.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  St. Clare had touched the right string.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  Cassy, therefore, with woman's tact, touched the only string that could be made to vibrate.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  There was need of paraffin oil, nails, string, dog biscuits, and iron for the horses' shoes, none of which could be produced on the farm.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Take my advice – string along with me, I know this business inside out.
2  Dan-gle the ball on a string before the baby.
3  Using the right hand to touch the string gently through the fingers,the trace of lubrication,with my flying fantasy.
4  If you type in the search string 'ing', the computer will find all the words containing 'ing'.
5  Where the knot is loose the string slips.
6  She took a pair of scissors and cut the string.
7  The key is hanging on a string by the door.
8  Make a knot at the end of the string.
9  The country's economic troubles are rooted in a string of global crises.
10  She was wearing a string of green beads round her neck.
11  She wore a string of green glass beads around her neck.
12  Her key hung on a string around her neck.
13  Lay the two ends of string so they make a loop over each other.
14  I need a piece of string to tie this parcel up.
15  A complicated string of chemical reactions leads to the end product.