STRAND in a Sentence

Learn STRAND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

52 example sentences for STRAND, such as:

1. Break like ripples on the strand.
2. She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
3. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
4. Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
5. They rowed about a league, and then set me down on a strand.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRAND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
strand
 n.  complex of fibers that twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread; land bordering a body of water; single filament
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  As Lily turned, and settled to completer rest, a strand of her hair swept Gerty's cheek with its fragrance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  Montcalm lingered long and melancholy on the strand where he had been left by his companion, brooding deeply on the temper which his ungovernable ally had just discovered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  The crowded mirror of the Horican was gone; and, in its place, the green and angry waters lashed the shores, as if indignantly casting back its impurities to the polluted strand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  Break like ripples on the strand.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY
5  They rowed about a league, and then set me down on a strand.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
6  Mrs Bolton put aside a strand of hair from her face, with the back of her hand.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  The Lido, with its acres of sun-pinked or pyjamaed bodies, was like a strand with an endless heap of seals come up for mating.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  There was a long rivulet in the strand and, as he waded slowly up its course, he wondered at the endless drift of seaweed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  He turned away from her suddenly and set off across the strand.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
11  Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
12  We all looked in silence at Mrs. Wilson who removed a strand of hair from over her eyes and looked back at us with a brilliant smile.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  But the grim sailor admits now one and now another, while some he pushes back far apart on the strand.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
14  She looked in the mirror and automatically pushed up loose strands of hair but she did not see her own reflection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  The glare of the unshaded gas shone familiarly on her pock-marked face and the reddish baldness visible through thin strands of straw-coloured hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face.
2  Standing in front of the mirror she tweaked a strand of hair into place.
3  She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
4  She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
5  The fibers become stretcher, so that their toughness - the energy needed to break a strand - rises even more.
6  On close examination, the boy can be seen to have a woven strand of some sort around his left ankle, possibly adornment, spiritual or medicinal.
7  Grasping it with a set of forceps, he fed the strand into the catheter.
8  The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
9  He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought.
10  They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.
11  It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans.
12  In July, a trainload of Metro-North passengers was stranded for about an hour without water or air conditioning near Westport, after overhead wires fell.
13  Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
14  The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.
15  Civilian roles are just as vital, from rescuing people stranded on mountains, from putting out wildfires to carrying people and presidents to and from places where there are no runways.