Sentence examples for drawing a string from inspiring English sources

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The recall has severely tarnished the company's image, costing it billions of dollars in lost sales and repair bills and drawing a string of lawsuits.

Franklin and his brother, James, criticized smallpox inoculation, which was performed by drawing a string, previously in contact with the pustules of a smallpox victim, through a small incision on the person being inoculated.

The program was steadily expanded, drawing a string of productions to the state, including the TV series "Sleepy Hollow" and the movie "The Hunger Games," which contributed to a record $220 million in film and TV spending in 2011.

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The Minnesota Drive off-ramp near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport drew a string of spectators.

A forthcoming election for governor of Zacatecas state has drawn a string of candidates to Chicago, for instance.

He noticed the two or three safety pins she wore fastened to the thin gold bangles that were behind the red and white ones, which she would use to replace a missing hook on a blouse or to draw a string through a petticoat at a moment's notice, a practice he associated strictly with his mother and sisters and aunts in Calcutta.

Draw a string.

Take your pencil and draw a "string" inside the border.

He is among a marquee list of names in Hewitt's quarter of the draw, a string of opponents that include Carlos Moya, the 1998 French Open champion; and Pete Sampras, who has put a great deal of effort, much of it in futility, to prepare himself for a shot at a major on clay, the one surface that has bedeviled his great career.

For them, the act of drawing a bow across the open string of a cello, for example, is anathema, just as the octave doubling of a melodic line was for Schoenberg and the twelve-tone school.

It helped me see the effectiveness of class activities like drawing an ellipse with string and a film about the historical context of Kepler's contribution to celestial mechanics.

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