Sentence examples for balls of string from inspiring English sources

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There were balls of string obsessively wound and re-wound - perhaps 1,000 of them.

Hundreds of lengths of string radiate from the bed to Ping-Pong-size Ping-Pong-size Ping-Pong-size

In their house they had lovely posters of kittens tumbling about in balls of string, instead of the shelves of holy books we had.

When he died, he left an apartment filled with hundreds of old Pepto Bismol bottles; plastic maple syrup containers; balls of string; a windup Edison phonograph; a music box, and plaster figurines of Jesus and Mary.

Contrast this with Melbourne, where visitors are obliquely enticed by the prospect of meeting sexy hipsters by going on treasure hunts and trailing giant balls of string through the city's intriguing lanes.

Her woven "hieroglyphic journal" is based on pen-and-ink drawings of her favorite things: dancers, pomegranates, Gerrit Rietveld Zig-Zag chairs, rhinoceroses and balls of string, all embellished with curious crosshatches and squiggles.

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But even she finds her nerves constantly on edge and her mind slipping: her head "seems to contain two balls of strings being separately unwound".

Classical busts and a sort of messy mélange of Wellington boots, trugs, gardening catalogs and balls of strings -- the stuff one might find in any English country house -- fill the space.

The Secret Weapon: ball of string The Look: Smitten Kitten.

Students sit down and hold a ball of string.

Right now the top video is a bunny playing with a ball of string.

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