Sentence examples for a strand about from inspiring English sources

With your hands, roll each ball into a strand about 12 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide.

Put a headband over your head and make sure there is no hair over the headband Take a strand about.5 inch (1.3 cm) to 1 inch (2.5 cm) and push it over the band and tuck it under the headband.

There's plenty of tasty political intrigue and tension in a story strand about a spy's attempts to inform the Japanese about Nazi plans to use nuclear weapons against them.

But his story, about arrested development and second chances, is awfully familiar and surprisingly sentimental, and a plot strand about an Iraq veteran with post-traumatic stress feels particularly contrived.

Human DNA is such a long strand — about 10 feet of DNA stuffed into a microscopic nucleus of a cell — that it fits only because it is tightly wound and coiled around itself.

Cut a piece of steel rod about 3 1/4" long Cut 2 more pieces of steel rod, each about 2 long Glue the rods together, so they form sort of an I shape, leave about a quarter inch of steel rod sticking out at the the top Cut 3 pieces of wire about 6" long, twist them together to make a strand of twisted wire, about 4.5" long.

There's a potentially intriguing strand about a Glaswegian psycho who causes the narrator a few good moral dilemmas, but doesn't carry the required air of menace and madness.

When Ball told his board that he wanted this summer's programme to include a strand of work about the long shadow of the first world war, entitled After a War, some expressed surprise.

There's always been a strand of thinking about Trump that sees his presidential campaign as intended to improve his commercial brand, and that he may not actually want to win.

In this respect, our study contributes to a strand of research about how attributions of client (in competence are achieved in interaction [ 25].

Section off your first piece of braiding hair into a strand that is about 2 3 inches (5.1 7.6 cm) wide.