on a string
Example Sentences
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These nucleosomes connect like beads on a string and fold into chromatin fibers.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
In many productions, Hamlet stalks the stage in a fog of misery, as if trailing a rain cloud above his head like a balloon on a string.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
In the second, he needed just four pitches to retire the side in order, capitalizing on a string of well-located offerings for a lightning-quick inning.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2025
Not that a bunch of beads on a string is going to fix what happened, but it shows she cares.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
