Sentence examples for a string of familiar from inspiring English sources

It's perfectly pleasant, but fundamentally generic -- a string of familiar brand-name boutiques (Prada, Dior and the rest) interrupted by the facades of private banks you've never heard of.

In a string of familiar battleground states where Obama had been struggling to capitalize on anti-Bush sentiment and economic angst, a new round of polls showed him breaking out at last.

The play ran a little over a year and boasted a string of familiar names who took over the Trumbo role, including Brian Dennehy, Gore Vidal, Richard Dreyfuss, F. Murray Abraham and Chris Cooper.

In many UK productions, Hamlet is a string of half-familiar quotations.

Hot city PC Pegg and slow rural bobby Frost give a new meaning to "good cop, bad cop", as they blaze through a string of gags and a village-full of familiar comics to an unashamedly all-out action climax.

There's the inevitable pedestrianisation, the string of familiar chain stores, businesses fighting to stay alive in the face of internet shopping and out of town retail.

There's something rather dusty about The Promise as George pushes his characters through a string of soapy machinations that feel incredibly familiar.

Looking prim and proper with a string of pearls -- and some very familiar glasses.

But as if eager to make her narrator a modern update of Emily Brontë's Cathy, Dunmore burdens her familiar story with a string of salacious, increasingly overwritten adventures straight out of the pulp-fiction files.

Originally he had headed to the Spanish islands to rest his war injuries, but he soon joined a paragliding club in San Agustin, Gran Canaria, becoming a familiar face in a string of upmarket resorts.

When Americans finally do arrive in quantity, New Yorkers will notice something familiar about Havana, for a string of New York architects found it fertile ground a century ago.