The string pulls on the spinning weight, making it turn in a circle.

A staff job, the one he had fought against, refused to take, pulled every string to avoid, all these years.

Her arms went up as if a string had pulled them.

A long string of cars and trucks is pulling into the gravel parking lot.

When the wheel turned, the string would pull out of the grenade.

A call to an old buddy, favours called in, strings pulled.

I didn't have any strings to pull in the furniture world.

We Scots are having our strings pulled and don't even seem to know it.

Now certain governments have seen reason and I've blackmailed people, pulled strings.