on a string
Example Sentences
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“Obviously, you can’t do it individually by yourself. It has to be five guys on a string, communication, always at an all-time high.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
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
I thought of the fat smelly markers that cost two-fifty each, the leather diaries that locked with little keys, the battery-operated fans that you could wear on a string around your neck on hot days.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
