We found 57 examples of how to use strings in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 57.
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| 1. | Anyone who has never strung a spinet, clavichord, or harpsichord cannot imagine what kinds of problems can arise, from the choice of strings, to the actual stretching of the strings until they are tuned. | |
| 2. | We tied strings to all of my brother's plastic models in his room and when he turned the lights off to go to sleep, we pulled the strings. | |
| 3. | A guitar normally has six strings, while a bass guitar normally has four strings. | |
| 4. | My wife holds the purse strings in our family. | |
| 5. | When will you ever loosen your purse strings? | |
| 6. | Who's pulling the strings behind the scenes? | |
| 7. | I know who is pulling the strings. | |
| 8. | I am tied to my mother's apron strings. | |
| 9. | She kept a tight rein on the purse strings. | |
| 10. | He can pull strings for you. | |
| 11. | That young couple are still tied to their parent's apron strings. | |
| 12. | I just want to make sure that his offer has no strings attached. | |
| 13. | The strings are tied together. | |
| 14. | Tom wrapped the package and tied it with strings. | |
| 15. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. | |
| 16. | Tom put new strings on the old guitar that he had just bought. | |
| 17. | Tom can probably pull some strings for you and get you into that school. | |
| 18. | Most guitars have six strings. | |
| 19. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in the United States, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. | |
| 20. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in The United States of America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. | |
| 21. | One of the piano strings is broken. | |
| 22. | There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. | |
| 23. | I know who's pulling the strings. | |
| 24. | Be careful, eyes, what you see, cause it's the second glance that ties your hands as darkness pulls the strings. | |
| 25. | I haven't put new strings on my guitar in a long time. |