There were moments, in fact, when the strings could seem to disappear, and the doll-house stage seemed to expand.

The strings of tracers seemed to be probing randomly, without purpose.

"It's a very light racket and the strings seem to grip the ball," he said.

A string of vicious murders seems to follow Ashley, and the police must work hard to find out who is behind them.

That string seems to be running out, though.

But now, the string of unpleasant events never seemed to end.

But all the loose strings seem to point in his direction somehow.

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

A string of gibberish, yet it almost seemed he should understand.

In a phenomenon called sympathetic vibration, a string seems to vibrate by itself.