Sentence examples for silk strands from inspiring English sources

Also, if the material shines, the manufacturer has added silk strands.

Once we understand how these building blocks work, the silk strands could be put to any number of potential uses.

The silk strands grow a little more than an inch every day and continue to grow until they are fertilized.

Generally, two to three days are required for all silk strands on an ear to be exposed and pollinated.

Pollination occurs when the falling or wind-borne pollen grains are caught by these new moist silk strands.

Stressful condititions, including lack of moisture, tend to dry the silk strands and pollen grains, usually resulting in a nubbin, or an ear with a barren tip.

Us, this office, university, city outside, nation inside which the city resides, nation inside the idea of empire wrapped so carefully strand by strand, silk and steel cable of spider webbing wrapped round and round endlessly, a transparent cocoon holding everything inside, binding everything together until in one quiet, crystal-clear instant we decide to say — No. Nothing's there.

A mini-patchwork quilt has the artist's name embroidered in pink and silver above the word "Crazy," the title of one of Patsy Cline's greatest hit, and a decal-size replica of a Jack Daniel's label is stitched from silk thread and strands of human hair.

Dressed in pale blue silk with a strand of white flowers in her hair, Aung San Suu Kyi listed the country's most essential needs as basic education and vocational training to foster political reforms and jobs to end high unemployment among the young, who have little to do in life and not much hope.

Although a few spiders tie their eggs together with several strands of silk, most construct elaborate sacs of numerous layers of thick silk.

Both wore dark suits, white shirts and strange knotted strands of silk.