Sentence examples for loop of string from inspiring English sources

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Then she slipped the flashlight into a hanging loop of string and a dim spotlight fell on her pillow.

Then thread a loop of string through the holes that you made in the middle the strips (they should should all line up).

Its basic concept seems simple, of making a giant structure that is something like a loop of string arrested in mid-fall, but this simplicity is compromised by the stairs and lifts needed to get people into it.

The result is the £19m, 115-metre, ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, "a loop of string arrested in mid-fall", in the words of our architecture critic Rowan Moore.

Slot a chopstick through the loop of string and lay the chopstick horizontally over a container that's deep enough to let the ball hang free – this will catch the liquid that will drip out – and refrigerate.

Thorndike's typical experiment involved placing a cat inside a "puzzle box," an apparatus from which the animal could escape and obtain food only by pressing a panel, opening a catch, or pulling on a loop of string.

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Clothing hung from hangers attached to loops of string suspended from the ceiling.

If everything works out, he said, there will be loops of string in the sky as big as galaxies.

We yanked gophers from their holes with loops of string and picked pail after pail of berries.

Inside it, where others might stash paper supplies or cleaning products, he has rigged the space with S hooks and loops of string.

When the Giant Peach is attacked by sharks while floating across the ocean, James comes up with the idea of attaching loops of string to a flock of seagulls, in order to lift the peach into the air — and, voilà, that's precisely what happens!

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