Sentence examples for end of a string from inspiring English sources

"You feel like shark bait floating on the end of a string," he said.

For fishing for coins and valuables with a wad of gum as bait stuck to the end of a string.

At the other end of a string of questions trying to tease out a tinge of regret, Glavine held firm.

The Brewers were nearing the end of a string of 14 seasons without a winning record, but Braun and Prince Fielder, then a rookie, offered hope.

Instead, Sorrentino films the suspended corpse upside down, so that Signor Calvi is made to float like a bulging balloon on the end of a string.

The rap against W. S. Merwin's poetry has been that it is obscure and abstract, as aloof as a balloon on the end of a string.

The homer was the final run of the game, which started with a flurry of scoring and ended with a string of shutout innings from Yankees relievers.

Pick up the two ends of a string.

It was the end of the last of a string of enviable careers.

In each case except the most recent one, the end of such a string preceded a strong market.

Now in his early 80's, Mr. Thielemans, the jazz harmonica player, remains in good shape, losing wind only at the end of a long string of notes.