Sentence examples for thousands of strips from inspiring English sources

It is a large canvas covered in thousands of strips of hand-cut gold fringe, creating a textural, fluid metallic landscape.

The deep red brick building at the northeast corner of 72nd Street, stripped of a coat of white paint several years ago, was built in 1888 by Leopold Friedman, who had been involved in the development of the huge Navarro Flats at Central Park South and Seventh Avenue a few years earlier.

Yet it is "Gypsy," with its haunted heroine and undertow of anger, that would set the tone for the advances in the form that would follow, as the creators of the best musicals of the final decades of the 20th century stripped the gloss off the form and used it to explore darker territory.

Thus, by the end of the 14th century, the old landscape of dispersed strips of land and fortified villages had frequently given way to broad estates dominated by country houses, the leisure seats of urban landowners.

Across the High Plains, stretching from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakotas, poor farming practices in the early part of the 20th century stripped away the native grasses that held moisture and soil in place.

Thousands of New York straphangers stripped off their pants Sunday for the 13th Annual No Pants Subway Ride.

Three days later, on the 27th, he was stripped of his title after being found guilty of doping.

-30 San Diego strippers from two different clubs sued the city and the chief of police this week over a 6th of March compliance check on the strip joints.

First a Lebanese minister announced that anyone returning to Syria after June 1st would be stripped of his or her refugee status on return to Lebanon a tricky law to enforce currently, because it is the UNHCR that grants refugee status.

The design and mask set production of the 2nd prototype Si strip detectors were completed in December 2003.

It was abandoned in the 14th century and stripped of its stone and metalwork.