Sentence examples for a couple of strings from inspiring English sources

But he refuses to go quietly, and by the play's conclusion more than a couple of strings have snapped.

Murray was only too aware that when Nalbandian dictates he moves his opponent's around like a puppet minus a couple of strings.

The small print of the Treasury's blue book makes it clear that the decision comes with a couple of strings attached.

Based on a couple of strings tucked within the latest iTunes Beta, it looks like Apple might be crackin' away at a way for users to give iOS apps a spin before they pay full price, no-jailbreak-required.

"A couple of strings had to be pulled" to get the dog inside the sterile hospital environment, Smith explained.

Ms. Darvarova also presided over a couple of string quartets -- Laura Kaminsky's dark, Bartokian "Transformations II: Music for a Changing World" and the Barber Adagio.

But he had a couple of extra strings to his bow as a musician and in speaking a foreign language.

Joe is watching from the inside as a couple of third-string capos vie for power.

During the Shostakovich rehearsal he bantered with the quartet; offered the first violinist a tip on bowing, the cellist a suggestion about delaying a crescendo; assented to a turn of phrase that a couple of the string players proposed.

Turn the bouquet in one direction and secure all the stems in place with a couple of twists of string or tape as before.

According to Seneca (l.c.) the ear-ring, No. 3, in the preceding woodcut, in which a couple of pearls are strung both above and below the precious stone, was worth a patrimony (see also De Vita Beata, 17).