"string" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Free of Mr. Read's marionette strings, they continue to surprise us up through the novel's final startling sentence.
- The advancing rats danced and jerked as though on marionette strings.
- Numbers spread out beneath them, hovering just above the desk surface, as if suspended by invisible marionette strings.
- The effects here are stagy, and the characters move as if jerked by marionette strings.
- There's plenty of exposure for the denialists - they have the powerful oil lobby pulling their marionette strings.
- Their arms and legs moved as if operated by marionette strings, jerking up and forward and slapping down.
- Zagallo has liberated this team from its marionette strings and allowed it to entertain as well as to win.
- We thought our marionette strings were unbreakable.
- Their mouths are moved by a trigger at the bottom, and invisible marionette strings work from above on other parts, such as hands and feet.
- Jersey City is a place, after all, where the marionette strings of the Democratic machine once threaded through almost every local institution.
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