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How to use the word strand in a Sentence?

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I had missed out on actually hanging my own strand, and I really wanted to participate, it was moving to see just like six or seven light strands going across the street. And so I made the sign.

Melissa DiMuzio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The result would be to strand a whole bunch of undocumented immigrants at bus stations, abbott's not proposing that the state is going to hold them. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott can't force the federal government to hold them. So instead Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is just going to make it harder for the federal government to execute the policy choices it has made.

Stephen Vladeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The work of achieving racial justice in the U.K. is far from over, and that’s what this has revealed, whilst racism has become less socially acceptable to express openly, it is still very much a strand in British culture.

Bridget Byrne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our regulatory system is efficient and flexible, and I am confident that designation will not impact plans for the Strand Bookstore, in fact, the type of work she has described is typical for commercial storefronts and permits can often be issued quickly by staff.

Sarah Carroll

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Our mistake was leaving them on 24/7. We thought because it was only one strand of lights and were n’t overloading an outlet, we would be OK.

Mary Morrison

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It can be anything from an elegant woman walking down the street with a strand of pearls to someone who might have made their own clothing and (is) an artist, it's really about that spirit, that vitality, that expression of creativity. It's like a life force that is drawing me to them.

Ari Seth Cohen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It takes a lot of work. I don't let anyone touch a strand of it but me.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People still read hardbacks and books are still collectors' items so we expect Strand will continue to fare well against Amazon.

Brianne Sperber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I can hardly believe it. They don't strand alive very often.

Kelly Thorvalson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's a strand of male culture you see in the UK, and to some extent other Anglo Saxon societies, prevalent among 20, 30 and even 40-year-olds, which is : you go abroad, you drink a fair amount, you sing songs and engage in banter, and pick on someone who is different to you, there's this pervasive sexism and racism. The idea that' anyone who isn't like us, we're going to sing about them and insult them and it's part of the lad's day out.'.

Piara Powar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Bone-white driftwood maroons on the sand. Dunes wall in the strand. An island offshore is an overturned teacup. The gulls have abandoned the sea for the roof of the Surf Club.

Kirby Wright

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!

Walter Scott

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

Chief Seattle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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