He took a long look, and said it was like a black string stretched across the sand, but he couldn't guess what it was.

Keeping the string stretched tight, he drew a circle four feet in diameter.

In the 1980's she used a string stretched taut across the canvas as a guide and a 12-inch ruler to draw the line.

It consists of a bow measuring 140cm in length, made of flexible wood with a string (generally metal) stretched between its ends.

A string of long, narrow phosphorescent lakes, choked with stringy blue algae, stretched before them.

A string of long beaches stretches to the south; a picturesque lava-rock coast backed up against thick jungle lies to the north.

Other strings could stretch all the way across the observable universe.

A string of volcanoes stretches from Sumatra to the Banda Sea.

A long string of outdoor holiday lights-white only-were stretched along the entire distance to provide illumination.

His idea is to keep on putting pressure on Edgar as baron until the string stretches too far and snaps.