Sentences with phrase «like strings of»

To my ear, these entries all sound like strings of sound bytes designed more for editability than engagement.

It feels less like some strings of code reacting to other strings of code and more like an active and independent agent doing whatever it wants.

It still looks like strings of Play - doh rolled out on a table and affixed to the top of the characters» heads.

Just like the strings of cranberries and perfectly iced sugar cookies, it's time to trade in holiday - inspired shades for fresh neutrals and nudes.

The theoretical engine of this growth turns out to be complex: New galaxies get pulled in and stretched around the halo like strings of spaghetti, maintaining the signature of their independent origin; galaxies closer to the central bulge get mixed up with other old structures, losing the hallmarks of their original form.

Like strings of yarn, strings of amino acids (which form proteins) can fold into many shapes.

As the coils activate, they could pull on the attached threads — much like the strings of a puppet — to tighten and pressurize the suit.

Slug defense slime solves that problem with two interwoven networks of molecules, tangled together like strings of holiday lights.

They lie across one another like the strings of a tennis racket.

I've made salted caramel frosting before with homemade salted caramel, similar to yours above, but mine always ALWAYS gets chunks of caramel in it — like strings of solidified caramel — I pick them out and use the rest of it, and it's fine — but I can not seem to master the art of caramel making.

Most Artful Use of the Blogging Format to Say Something Truly Beautiful: Kristin Tennant with «A Hat That Says What Words Can't» «The hat is a small thing, but it's like strings of sentences not spoken or written, just worked out in yarn.»

In Japanese the novel is clumsy and repetitive, employs distractingly flawed narrative techniques, and even stoops to basic literary gaffes, mixing metaphors to create unappealing descriptions like «a blanket of rain enveloped the whole plain like the strings of a harp.»

Bitcoin addresses themselves, which look like strings of random letters and numbers, do not in - and - of - themselves identify the real - world parties to a transaction.

There's nothing like a string of market share losses to force a management team to own up to some painful truths.

Polymers are made by chemically reacting a lot of little molecules together to make one long molecule, like a string of beads.

(a) Radial symmetry: At a high radial trap enclosure, the ionized atoms line up like a string of pearls.

All one has to do is convert something unmemorable — like a string of numbers, a deck of cards, a shopping list, or Paradise Lost — into a series of engrossing visual images and then mentally arrange them within an imagined space, a memory palace.

In an impressive display of crowd management, each world invades the southern sky at the same time, arrayed like a string of pearls after sunset.

The bacteria are full of shiny white globules of sulphur and grow in long lines of single cells, making them look like a string of pearls.

One layer of the material is a polymer, a type of material made from long molecules built from many repeated subunits, like a string of beads.

Like a string of pearls, the spine is made of a series of similar vertebrae.

The blast is actually a series of bursts, like a string of firecrackers going off one after another.

One family of exocomets appears to have very similar orbits, all coming in toward the star like a string of pearls.

Each is composed of building blocks bound together, like a string of small magnetic beads — and just as magnets have poles, these building blocks have «plus» and «minus» ends.

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.

Something like a string of Christmas lights, where the lights are the azobenzene molecules.

It's a formidable task: A cell must cram about two meters of DNA into microscopic packages without tangling the genetic material like a string of holiday lights.

A bizarre object afloat in the North Sea looks like a string of enormous rubber sausages, but is really part of an audacious plan to finally start pulling our plastic waste out of the sea.

it's a blank canvas for standout accessories like a string of pearls.

The LP's 11 tracks play like a string of variations on two or three ideas, but most of Murray's and Smith's experimenting is strong enough that Syndrome Syndrome sounds more like a collection of singles written by a veteran outfit dedicated to perfecting one beloved sound.

The trailer features plenty of hilarious lines and wonderful moments, like the string of punch - outs and Fiennes fleeing after saying, «She's been murdered, and you think I did it».

That iteration of this script contained moments that I saw so clearly, but it was like a string of visual vignettes that inspired me.

One after another, they play like a string of rejected «Twilight Zone» episodes.

The cameos come thick and fast (Vogue ice queen Anna Wintour has a speaking part; actress - singer Ariana Grande appears in an orgy scene) and they mostly add to the film's story rather than making it feel like a string of SNL sketches.

The movie at least does an okay job of sensibly weaving the references together into a single narrative without feeling like a string of independent episodes.

Overlong and overdone, Running With Scissors strives to be a Wes Anderson-esque satire, but often feels like a string of skits held together by a compelling premise.

At the film's heart is a fitful conversation that unfolds like a string of koans, epigrams, jokes and silences.

The Darjeeling Limited felt more like a string of sometimes interesting moments, but the film lacked the requisite transitions necessary to create a coherent feature - length narrative.

With its carefully composed and framed shots, the trailer plays out a bit like a string of potential cover photos or screen savers, but we're reminded that we're actually watching a narrative film because of the intense performances from leads Michael Fassbender (Macbeth) and Marion Cotillard (Lady Macbeth).

Reign of Error reads like a string of her hyperventilating blog posts.

Much like the string of annual autoshows, watchmakers also look forward to a handful of major watch expos, where participating brands can show off concepts, new debuts, and updates.

The list of innovations here is long enough that it'd be difficult to recount them all here without making this read like a string of technobabble.

An occasional fragment of thing, like a string of beads, spools off the canvases.

Just when you think there is no GHE, they'll stab you in the back, twist the blade, and pull your guts out like a string of spaghetti.

Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now -LSB-...]

The quirk is that to the CanLII search engine «S.R.» looks like a string of text.

If you bring the same level of passion and inquisitiveness to each and every problem you work on, you'll find that success will be less like a one - hit wonder and more like a string of all - time greatest hits.

There is no deal breaker like a string of negative questions and answers.

I think the home selling process is a lot more like a string of auctions with declining attendance from bidders than a job search.

Not exact matches

Not only had Mayer bought a string of tech startups, but she's signed high - profile deals with folks like Katie Couric to produce original content.