Sentence examples for pull string from inspiring English sources

Three: pull string taut.

Meanwhile, plummeting demand has prompted Asda to pull string vests, once a staple male undergarment, from its shelves.

Pull string Pinata.

Bob then hung a huge stone from one of the posts so the great weight yanked everything together like the pull string on the bottom of a parka.

Unfortunately, an extrajudicial crusade of public shaming of men accused of "sexual misconduct" is no solution, and a poor kind of justice, not least because it brooks no dissent, as if all that women are allowed to say about #MeToo is "Me, too!" The pull string wriggles.

"The doll had a mechanism where a pull string would change the colour of the eyes — that scared children, but they're really collectable now," Wake said.

A dad who could pull strings or, more accurately, ropes.

You can't pull strings without Nottingham (Letters, 25 February).

Criminals who can pull strings with judges or police often walk free.

The Nazis abducted him, and Gertrude's family had to pull strings to get him released.

It's not every day that a corporate underling can pull strings for his superiors.