Sentence examples for tangle of string from inspiring English sources

A particle of Ebola-Zaire virus is made of only ten proteins, locked together in what looks like a tangle of string.

Contained in its own universe, yet part of mine, sharing space on my 5-year-old daughter's dresser with a few stray cards from a Crazy Eights deck, a tangle of string, some mismatched socks and a magnetic music box.

A small suggestion of her dancerly gifts came with a brief section, set to a song in Arabic, of languorous curling movements that might have been based on the shapes made by the tangle of string beside her.

In it the universe emerges from its state of quantum formlessness as a tangle of strings and cold empty membranes stuck together.

In Einstein's general relativity, these objects are bottomless pits in space-time, voraciously swallowing everything, even light, that gets too close, but in string theory they are a dense tangle of strings and membranes.

The front-runner for a "theory of everything," which would corral all the known forces and particles into a single equation, is a mathematical tangle of "strings" that wander through 10 dimensions.

More substantial than those wrist tangles of string and braided rope, these bracelets from Victoria Simes, designed for Zero + Maria Cornejo, are made with hand-knotted leather wrapped around sterling coated wire.

Vegetarian sides — braised bok choy, sautéed eggplant, a lustrous tangle of sautéed string beans — couldn't have been tastier or more accurately cooked.

Concept: Pueblan sandwiches — meat, slabs of creamy panela cheese, a tangle of Oaxacan string cheese, half a ripe avocado on a sesame-sprinkled bun... and that's just getting started.

Additional internal rhymes (sea/me, rotted/knotted) here suggest the anguished tangle of the strings.

With a mass of broken and dusty rocks below and a tangle of casually strung electricity cables above, even donkey carts find it tricky to negotiate the town's narrow twists and turns.