Johnson's first guitar, a childhood friend recalls, consisted of three strands of wire stretched on a wall.

The dancers can also produce resonating sounds when touching a series of electronic wires stretched across the stage.

The wire, sometimes stretched over the lower branches of the trees, sometimes lying on the ground, guided them surely.

Red, white, and blue plastic pennants hung down from a wire stretched above the lot; there was just enough wind to keep them nervously twitching.

At the same time his hand rested on another wire, stretched across a bench.

The building, with a wire net stretched over the balconies so that torture victims could not commit suicide, had literally been left as it was.

He couldn't take any more; he was wires stretched on a bone frame, every wire about to break.

Airplanes stop by using a hook on the back of the airplane to grab wires stretched across the runway.

The emergency antenna was a 40-meter wire stretched from a ring on the airship hull.

She imagined wires stretched across the dark countryside, quivering in the night-wind.