Sentence examples for a bit of string from inspiring English sources

Jars are topped with a dainty red-and-white cloth tied with a bit of string.

"It's much more Dad's Army – out in the shed with a bit of string and cardboard.

And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an eggshell, a bit of string".

It ends with an innocuous performance video of an artist arranging a bit of string on a table.

One item, a pink bracelet, must have fallen through the net – £25 for a washer on a bit of string?

The dog's body was articulated so it wiggled and waggled when pulled along by a bit of string.

Here goes then, a bit of a string flourish, kettle drums, divide up the screen, cattle, shiny high-rise buildings, bring on the horn: da dadaa, dadaa, dada, dada daaa … That's the Dallas (Channel 5) theme, of course.

(In one painting, Mr. Johns actually defines its connect-the-stars form with a bit of threadlike string.) Through artifice it distills uncontrolled galactic energy, making it psychologically manageable and, as a tool for navigation and time-marking, useful.

Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string.

If you live in rural Idaho, you might pack a bit of fishing string and a hook, but don't overdo it.

Leave a bit of extra string on the end to use to secure the bracelet to your wrist when you are finished.