"We're holding things together with bubble gum and string," she said.

In the evenings, I wrote up my findings and bound them together with string.

All held together with string and faith, by the look of it.

As usual, it looked like industrial scrap held together with string.

When I was a boy, entire lives were held together with free string.

There was a cardboard suitcase next to him, held together with string.

"After the last few days, I kind of feel like a kite: thin sticks and paper held together with string."

Even the bikini is no longer a thing of triangles held together with string.

Someone had wrapped two pieces of card stock tied together with string.

You might just as well fear a few sticks joined together with rotted string.