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01. Do you have a piece of [string] I could use to tie up this parcel?
02. You should tie the [string] for the baby's balloon around his wrist in case he accidentally lets go of it.
03. [String] and sequence are used interchangeably in molecular biology.
04. I broke a [string] on my guitar in the middle of the song.
05. You should tie a [string] around the parcel to keep it from coming open.
06. The pizza was covered in this disgusting, [stringy]-looking, processed cheese.
07. Her son carries his house key on a [string] around his neck.
08. The explosion was the latest in a [string] of attacks carried out by the rebels.
09. The children had [strung] a huge poster with "Happy Birthday" written on it, across the door.
10. June Bacher once said that love is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the [strings] remain forever.
11. Alix and Chris spent their holidays paddling kayaks through a [string] of islands off the west coast.
12. There is a Persian proverb which notes that he who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of [string].
13. The average medium-size piano has about 230 [strings].
14. Montego Bay in Jamaica is famous for its [string] of luxury beach hotels.
15. We visited one of the [string] of islands at Florida's southern end.
16. Dwight D. Eisenhower once noted that if you pull a [string], it will follow wherever you wish but if you push it, it will go nowhere at all.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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