Sentence examples for length of twine from inspiring English sources

The other half stretches toward the glass ceiling, growing a foot every week along a nine-foot length of twine.

To make a sofa or chair firmer in the absence of springs, upholsterers in days gone by would thread a fabric-covered button onto a length of twine.

"I rarely made it to the final reel without being dispatched by a gun or a knife or a length of twine, typically administered by a rival hood".

Emil Maresca pushes a paper tray holding a lone pastry aside, then reaches to cut a length of twine to tie the ends of a fragrant meat mixture he is feeding into beef casings.

Think about it: With just a simple length of twine, you can tie roasts, wrap a bouquet garni or sachet, tie off sausage links, hang charcuterie, tie roulades, hang yogurt and other items in cheesecloth to drain, support stuffed meats or vegetables, reconstruct cuts of meat, and truss all manner of poultry.

The length of twine has to reach your hand from the vest.

This sport (well, arguably) consists of dangling chicken necks tied on lengths of twine into the river's shallows and waiting for a crab to fasten onto one.

While Martin effortlessly handled yards and yards of fishing line so that his fly touched a small pool across the river, I yanked up short lengths of twine and splashed my fly into the river a few yards off.

In search of a solution, he drove to a company in central New Jersey called Bamboo and Rattan Works, bought 200 shoots of imported bamboo, and attached the shoots to the wall with lengths of twine.

When officers found the girl's body inside her Brooklyn apartment on Thursday, marks from the twine were visible on her ankles, though investigators believed that Ms. Brett-Pierce also tied her daughter's wrists because the lengths of twine on the headboard and foot board were identical.

"We are also using short lengths of twine which means there will not be too many jerseys on each individual line of bunting," he said.