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Example Sentences

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But factors such as the flagging property market, deflation and youth unemployment have left consumers tightening their purse strings.

From Barron's

Full of thunderous strings and Wagnerian vocals, it starts off as an opera song, changes tempo three times, introduces a guest verse from Bjork and ends with an almighty rave breakdown.

From BBC

Untying the strings from the nails and bushes, I used the short pieces to tie half of an apple to the trigger of each trap.

From Literature

Ida went and sat behind the loom, moving her hands across the strings, weaving her threads in and out and around each other.

From Literature

On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal