Sentence examples for of a strand from inspiring English sources

She pulled David McCullough's "John Adams" out of a Strand shopping bag.

A few trees emerge at opposite extremities of a desolate immensity, vaguely suggestive of a strand.

The surgeons, trying to sew together blood vessels about the size of a strand of spaghetti with thread thinner than a human hair, finally gave up.

The eye can only see something as small as seventy-five microns, or about the width of a strand of hair.

In a synchrotron, the particles' trajectory is altered to produce powerful X rays, which can be focussed into a beam about the width of a strand of hair.

At its weakest, Hass's work might be characterized by the wry title of a Strand poem: "Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life".

For example, when devising a city-wide campaign on diversity, he didn't ask me or some other predictable representative of a strand of diversity to chair it.

A fine plastic tube, the size of a strand of spaghetti, entered it at one end, delivering glucose, amino acids, and other critical nutrients.

The straps of her gown were about the width of a strand of ribbon on the wrapping of a Christmas package.

A cable bolt is a reinforcing element made of steel wires in the form of a strand or rope; it is installed in the borehole with cement grout.

Use of a strand-specific sequencing protocol allowed us to evaluate the expression of transcripts originating from the antisense strand of annotated protein-coding gene regions.