How to Use the strings in a Sentence

the strings

plural noun

• All the ivory keys remain in place, and none of the strings were broken.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Yet the strings still emerge from the dryer in a stubborn twist.
  — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 25 Oct. 2023
• This was played with élan over dissonant swirling in the strings.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• But that song took on a whole 'nother daylight when Paul Riser added the strings and the horns on it.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• First the strings, then two guitarists, two keyboardists, a bassist and a drummer to round it out.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2023
• The bikini top straps were down and tied to form a keyhole at her bust, with the strings hanging down.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 July 2023
• Simply place the top ring and let the strings cascade down for a stunning, stress-free display.
  — Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
• From the top of her low-slung denim jeans, the strings of her bikini bottoms could be seen in a shade of chocolate brown.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 Sep. 2023
• The presto of the third was kept extra-presto, with beguiling feints (or faints?) of volume in the repeating theme of the strings.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• Towards the end, the soloist drops down to its lowest register while the strings move upwards.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
• But even someone of Danna’s pedigree couldn’t avoid the strings that are often attached to fame.
  — Lucas Villa, Allure, 12 Apr. 2024
• But when her fingers meet the strings, her face hardens, like ancient marble.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• With a protection rating of IP44, the strings are waterproof except for the plug.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2023
• Tucked back behind the strings, even McDermott blends in with the ensemble, adding to the sublimity of the whole sound.
  — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2024
• Look for lamps and even chandeliers with fringe—the light sifts through the strings, creating an overall sense of moody ambiance.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Feb. 2024
• And yet, here, when Hoffman draws very close to the strings of Hawthorne’s novel, we’re made aware of the grating dissonance between them as writers.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• The small rubber insert on the strings reduces vibration.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Its founder, a bon vivant who once dated the widowed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, held all the strings, and pulled them in ways that Mr. Kohn often disliked.
  — Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• Banks retuned Ochs’ Stella Harmony acoustic guitar, began to run the dull side of the utensil up and down the strings, and there, on his mother’s back porch, Ochs learned how to play the blues.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• Stargazers were alarmed by how bright the strings of satellites appeared as sunlight reflected off their shiny surfaces.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• At one point, the strings glided through an intricate tune while the rest of the orchestra softly complemented it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The X-rays from Chandra sound like a synthesizer, Spitzer’s infrared data are the strings, and optical light from Hubble has bell-like tones.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• There’s just something about the orchestra, and particularly the strings, which gives you goosebumps.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
• But the French film industry is like a small village where a handful of talent agents and studios pull all the strings and can easily influence decisions.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
• Noseda coaxed out beautiful balance between the brass and the strings — with special credit going to the cool, clean, substantial tuba of Stephen Dumaine.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• At his signal, the strings went off on a pizzicato run, buoyed by harps and congas, before dissolving into a bass drum pulse beneath simmering horns.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The orchestra for the most part sounded especially good Friday night, the strings polished, winds and brasses fitting into ensembles just so.
  — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2023
• Alsop let the strings and horns rear up before taming them into the movement’s luminous home stretch, which welcomes back themes and reassembles them into triumphant climax.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• McDermott herself makes her piano chime at times in the piece, while the strings employ harmonics, minor seconds, pizzicato in music that moves between a sense of awe and feeling of danger.
  — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2024
• Bronfman was in dazzling form, unleashing what often felt like an impossible lightness through the first movement and sustaining an easy dialogue with the strings, the oboes, the horns, as though breezing through a party.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024