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strands

NOUN
fine thread
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


Example Sentences

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In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and then the men in white came with a van and took somebody away, or bankruptcy or divorce or even jail claimed a participant in its strictly unstately sarabands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because I interfered with your sarabands and your other Spanish amusements.

From Ten Years Later by Dumas père, Alexandre

Other painters have spun more intricate, more beautiful scrolls of line; other painters sounded more sensuous colour music, but the subtle sarabands of Botticelli they have not composed.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

The paintings in the chapel wear thy looks, The canticles are changed to sarabands, And with the leaned doctors of the schools I see thee dance cachuchas.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth



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