Sentence examples for setting a string from inspiring English sources

"Setting a string in motion is magical.

But Martin has been redefining what is possible for an older body, setting a string of formidable national and world records.

Globally, it's actually doing quite capably, with Latin American countries setting a string of Paranormal Activity opening highs: Mexico ($2.7m), Brazil ($1.7m), Colombia (517K), Peru (489K).

In the evening, when the sun is setting, a string of campfires lights the way down the beach; you stroll past guitar and ukulele-strumming loners and get a contact high off memories of the days when you, too, were a young arty person.

Former Brand New Heavies keyboardist Neil Cowley then showed he retains a rousing penchant for jackhammering rock-piano, even alongside an acoustic trio and on this mostly thunderous but sometimes cinematically brooding set, a string quartet.

Decker, the former world champion and one-time golden girl of US athletics who set a string of world records in the run-up to the 1984 Games, said: "I don't think about it.

There he studied under Martin Green, whose laboratory at the University of New South Wales set a string of efficiency records for solar cells, raising the amount of sunlight energy that can be converted into electricity from 18% in 1983 to 24% in 2004.

Its announcement last October set off a string of demonstrations.

Someone set off a string of firecrackers, which sounded like gunfire.

The Sonics are set for a string of US tour dates in April.

An Edinburgh road-rage incident sets off a string of murders in this deft thriller.