Sentence examples for hang on a string from inspiring English sources

She is dressed in worn jeans, woollen socks, and a plain black shirt; elk vertebrae hang on a string around her neck.

Obtain a small plastic drink bottle, (Sunny D, Poland Spring, etc. ) Make sure the drink bottle is small and not that heavy, because it has to hang on a string.

Full-scale speeches by politicians are seldom much more than collections of such slogans and factoids, hung on a string of platitudes.

"This bearded sinner tells me he is Jewish," the speaker said, pointing to a young man wearing black slacks and a black shirt, with a pair of what appeared to be calipers hung on a string around his neck.

Browne suggests that experiments and experience are good ways to generate information: for example he investigated the suggestion that a pot can hold as much water when its full of ashes as it can when it is empty, and that a dead kingfisher hung on a string can indicate the direction of the prevailing wind.

Ranaldo's signature Fender JazzMaster hangs on a string suspended from a metal frame and its body sways back to him in a rhythmic loop.

The ability of some bird species to pull up meat hung on a string is a famous example of spontaneous animal problem solving.

Several of these snowflakes hung on a string or yarn makes a lovely festive garland.

"Hang on," says a spokesman.

Well, if Mark Bailey can hang on to 500 trowels, I don't see why I shouldn't build up an equally large collection of string.

His cadres would kill him, and burn the body; he would squeeze himself into a submarine; he would bite on the cyanide capsule that hung on a black string round his neck.His people, confined in the end to a beach in north-eastern Sri Lanka and shelled by the Sinhalese army, could not get away so easily from the mayhem Prabhakaran had drawn them into.