Sentence examples for cradle of string from inspiring English sources
The stage, initially bare apart from the poignant sight of small, brightly coloured coats hanging on pegs, gradually becomes like a giant but slightly sinister playground in which balloons become bombs, chalk marks out the school floor plan and a giant cat's cradle of string is the imprisoning gymnasium.
The cans are randomly connected by a cat's cradle of strings hidden inside the wall, so finding the corresponding mouth and earpiece is a halting hit-and-miss process, with most messages going nowhere.
Dominic West, as he might, holds The Affair together with a powerhouse performance; Toby Jones, fresh from Marvellous's Bafta triumph (during which he took a typically selfless podium stance behind the real Neil Baldwin) only put in creepingly fleeting appearances in Wayward Pines, but my money's on him holding the cat's cradle of plot strings.
For 21st-century kids growing up surrounded by video games, iPods and YouTube, the idea of playing cat's cradle with a piece of string or snatching quarters off one's elbow may seem as quaint as the corncob dolls in "Little House in the Big Woods".
The title image (a construction of string with "No damn cat, and no damn cradle") is a small example of the make-believe that makes the world go round, bigger examples being religions and world views of any kind.
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
String up rows of string lights.
Purchase spools of string.
Try different types of string.
