Sentence examples for the drawstrings of from inspiring English sources

He tugged at the drawstrings of his hooded sweatshirt, tucked and retucked his messy shoulder-length hair behind his ear, ordered a beer, finished it in about a minute and quickly ordered another.

So many people were sewing Suboxone pills into the seams of clothing and stuffing it into the drawstrings of sweat pants, he said, that one women's prison would repeatedly wash and dry on high heat every piece of clothing sent in care packages.

No one told me that my youngest son would be so insecurely attached to me that he would hold on to the drawstrings of my pants while I walked around the house.

Habitually twisting the drawstring of his hoodie, Luke Treadaway's pale, skinny Christopher has Asperger's syndrome.

But before this had been done, Bennie McMahon stooped over to pick up a sawed-off shotgun which had become entangled in the drawstring of one of the canvas bags.

If the guy tends to play with the drawstring of his hoodie, pick at his nails, brush away an imaginary spot on his shirt, or kick at nothing when he's around you, then it may be because he likes you and feels nervous.

A year later, back out of jail, he took a 17-year-old male relative to a rooftop in the Bronx, pulled the drawstring out of his sweat pants and looped it around the boy's neck, Detective Reiman said.

There, a Dutch hot water bottle called Too Beautiful to Hide had a velourlike finish and a cinched neck that reminded Mr. Hacker of the drawstring on a velvet bag.

Pull on the drawstrings to gather the top of the bag.

Pull the drawstring on two bags.

I tugged at the drawstring waist of a taffeta anorak ($315) -- and, presto, a dress; I worked a black cotton shirt ($195), tying its front sash behind me to give it an hourglass shape that evoked Ava Gardner baiting a toreador in "The Sun Also Rises".