The phrase "pearls on a string" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in a variety of contexts to refer to a necklace of pearls, or a general metaphor for something that is connected or linked. For example, you could say, "The topics of our presentation were linked like pearls on a string."
While that show presented one Vermeer after another, like pearls on a string or a row of motionless beacons, the Met's exhibition is like a roving spotlight that almost giddily illuminates a succession of artists, mediums and generations.
At a first glance it looks as if earthquake foci line up along this zone like pearls on a string.
It was a focus for the communities, which were linked by the line, like pearls on a string".
Two dimensionally distributed Au clusters are found to be transformed into long cluster chains of seemingly helical pattern in the organic matrix like pearls on a string.
Its appearance was very unusual it comprised at least a dozen active cometary nuclei lined up like glowing pearls on a string.
Mother Nature does not know more patterns than Justin Peck does: circles and spirals and triangles and grids and arrows and rickrack and pearls on a string.
The temporal evolution of quasi-static electric field structures, as captured by the pearls-on-a-string configuration of the Cluster spacecraft, indicates that the formation of electric field structures and of ionospheric plasma density cavities are closely coupled processes.
Thruster firings will be used to provide different spacings between spacecraft - either along a common pearls-on-a-string configuration, or by separating the planes of the orbits in local time, or by relative changes in the latitude of the argument of perigee.
Lastly, Pc1 waves with frequencies ranging between 0.2 and 5 Hz were observed in a pearls-on-a-string configuration.
These data are in agreement with our observations that in S. pneumoniae the ancillary proteins are not appended laterally, conferring to the pilus a pearl on a string appearance of identical subunits bound to each other.
The journey is rich in history, art, spectacular ecclesiastical architecture and stunning landscapes, which the single-track railway links together like pearls on an iron string.
