Sentences with phrase «as beads on a string»

Days that had been as smooth and alike as beads on a string were now disrupted by its call.

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Perhaps James is not so much a chain of thought, or beads on a string, as it is just a handful of pearls, dropped one by one into the hearer's mind.»

Dry rigatoni or wagon wheel pasta can be used as beads to string on a shoelace.

Cells put a lot of effort into preventing proteins — which are like a string of beads arranged in a precise three - dimensional shape — from unraveling, since a protein's activity as an enzyme or structural component depends on being properly shaped and folded.

«Beads on a string» is a telltale sign of something known as a wet merger, which occurs when at least one galaxy in a collision between galaxies is gas rich, and this gas is converted quickly into new stars.

Their loyalty to Malcolm is essential in a film that becomes a series of unlucky events strung together like shoddy beads on a string — you wait for everything to fall apart as they desperately pedal their bikes through the neighborhood trying to keep it all together.

Baubles feature numbers in words, as bead strings, on dice and shown on fingers.

The show spans iconic, career - defining works — candy spills, light strings, beaded curtains — as well as performance works like Untitled (Go - Go Dancing Platform)(1991), which sees a male dancer in a lamé bikini hold court daily on a small stage.

Though the S9's primary camera is rated 4 megapixels less than the 5T's, it still produced a crisper overall image, as evidenced in the text on the old - fashioned timer and the bead string for the blinds hanging in the background.

On each dangling end, I strung beads as I wished, dinishing each off by sticking feathers into the last bead and then tying my knot, letting any remaining string hang.