"strand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Footsteps in the street beyond cut the fragile strand.
- His voice boomed back from the bare vault of the ceiling, shaking crawlers from their webs as the sound shattered the fragile strands.
- The pull of the fragile strand that connected her to her body lessened.
- The fragile strand of trust that had begun to grow in Vienna had snapped under the strain of separation and had been blown into the wind like cobwebs.
- Sailing on evanescent wings of mind through the energy/matter currents of space, down one fragile strand of the web and up another.
- Scientists have extracted fragile strands of DNA, the genetic code of life, from a plant that thrived millions of years before the dawn of man.
- More crawlers were shaken from their webs as the sound of his voice shattered fragile strands.
- To her surprise she touched a fragile strand, a tangle of thread tossed over the surface of the massed databases.
- It is a frustrating movement, however, held together at points by bare, fragile strands of phrase that sound more like temporary bridges than completed structures.
- A fanout kit is a set of empty jackets designed to protect fragile tight-buffered strands of fiber from a cable.
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