Sentences with phrase «bit of string»

The researchers took a clear box, attached a motor, and dropped in bits of string between 1 1/2 feet and 20 feet long.

Maybe a few bits of string here and there.

As if her encounter with Minimalism had then done its job, the circles loosen up and often acquire three dimensions, as with bits of string dangling from the center of each one.

We are a couple looking to make new friends and possibly find discreet encounters with single bisexual females and / or couple to have a little bit of no strings attached harmless fun in and out of the bedroom

Stephen Landrigan, and Irish playwrite friend of mine who lives with us there said, «It's emblematic of Afghanistan that children take scraps of plastic bag, a couple of crossed sticks and a little bit of string, and get these things airborne when there's no wind.»

A couple of bobsledders, their minds fixed by no means dreamily on the winning of the Olympics, have been seen lately sitting in a sled in a wind tunnel and trailing bits of string in the airstream.

That's why physicist Doug Smith of the University of California at San Diego and Dorian Raymer, a student, decided to unravel the mystery of knot formation — by tossing bits of string around and around in a box 3,415 times.

I'm a big fan of keyless entry systems (probably because they save me digging out keyfobs from the schoolboy - like clutter of my pockets, spilling change and potentially useful bits of string all over the car park) and the 370's worked brilliantly.

She spent the day snoozing in the sun, meowing animatedly at you, and clawing at bits of string.

A Canadian environmental worker named Bob Munro looks on as a handful of kids play with a soccer ball made of discarded shopping bags tied with bits of string.

He later also established his connection with Dada's mood of iconoclasm and disgust with society first by his violent imagery, and then by his handling of tarry blacks, his non-aesthetic, industrial textures, and by embedding cigarette ends, broken glass and bits of string in his pigment.

Those bits of string you call swimsuits are about as good for swimming as a G - string is for ballroom dancing.

Decorate the jar with fabric and ribbon, attaching the recipe with a bit of string (bonus points if you reuse the front half of old Christmas cards for this).

You can also make one by hot gluing a magnet to a bit of string and tying it to a stick OR you can upcycle some cardboard tubes and make a really awesome, yet simple fishing pole like lalymom did.

Dating doesn't necessarily have to be a hunt for the next husband or wife, and especially as you get older it's totally okay to enjoy a bit of no strings attached fun.

Man «tames killer Japanese hornet» and now keeps it on a bit of string to take it wherever he goes or is it an internet sting?

The red paint on the stairs had worn through in the middle, the stamped green linoleum that was glued on the walls to shoulder height was rubbed away to nothing, and bits of string had been stretched across the gaps in the banisters.

With plenty of spare time, some bits of string and a guide to sailing knots, Little Pig is an expert knot - tier by the time Poppy arrives with a carved wooden boat.

If you want to see if the mother rabbit is still caring for her young, Tucker suggests using a bit of string or twigs to make an X on top of the nest.

Height: 2.6 miles, or approximately 42,000 Sackboys Weight: The Sun Natural habitat: The cold, empty reaches of the Cosmos; the cupboard under the stairs Defensive mechanisms: Sucking; creating Meanies and infecting the Cosmos; telling jokes at funerals Weaknesses: Metal toy soldiers, bits of string, Sackboy Appears in: LittleBigPlanet 2

From the genres with hundreds of games and billions of pounds in sales every year to the genres with perhaps a couple of dozen releases, 50p and a bit of string.

It opened him up to the idea that allowing external stimuli to influence his work did not constitute a failure of imagination: «[Miró's] supposed to be the great Surrealist with a fantastic imagination but he went on the beach every day picking stuff up — a bit of string, a shell, a bit of wood.

A bit of stone, a bit of wood, a bit of string, whatever... I thought, who am I to think that I can keep inventing out of my head without any reference to nature?

He's supposed to be the great surrealist with a fantastic imagination but he went on the beach every day picking stuff up — a bit of string, a shell, a bit of wood.

The champagne - coloured carpet in Rachel Rose's video installation Lake Valley (2016) is so plush that the cables connecting two cuboid speakers, which have been casually dropped like the bits of string for Marcel Duchamp's 3 Standard Stoppages (1913 — 14), have burrowed deep into its pile.

Mahalchick arranges old candy, food wrappers, marbles, bits of string, bottle caps, exhibition postcards, advertisements for psychic mediums and anything else that washes up on his shore.

A dirty torn plastic glove is tied with a bit of string hanging off a gnarled branch, the sculpture evokes a range of images from birds to male body parts.

I realized that there were already people who had a certain sensibility, these ideas and formal solutions for something that I'd already started to do on my own, like tying up bits of string, and knotting it, and other sorts of practical exercises with material.

How about if they tied a bit of string to the tail of the next rocket that's fired into space and then use that to pull a bigger bit up till they can pull up a pipe to pump water into space to freeze into a shield to reflect sunlight, so reducing sea level rise and shading the earth!

Bits of string, dried grass, even a wad of dog hair, no doubt from my Golden Retreiver, whom I brush out side daily!