Definition: 1. A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole. 2. Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable. 3. A necklace made by a stringing objects together. 4. A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.
Use 'strand' in a sentence:
1. You could actually draw out a 36,000-kilometer strand or ribbon of nanotubes stronger than steel, but maybe a thousandth the thickness of a human hair.
2. Butthis strand doesn't have any such cells.
3. The second strand is the more dangerous one.
4. The Strand is one of London's busiest and most affluent streets.
5. These strands of molecules twine around each other to form cable-like structures.
6. The airport had to be closed, stranding tourists.
7. His fall was destined to a barren strand.
8. There had been two strands to his tactics.
9. If you walk further down to the Strand, there's quite a lot of interesting things to do there.
10. Contagious: a human head louse clings to a strand of hair.
11. Rosie is holding up a strand of bladder wrack as long as her whole body.
12. One single strand can support a weight of up to 100 grams.
13. Strands of mist curl in the air.
14. There is same bases usage frequency in coding sequence between leading strand and lagging strand.
15. Officials said the animals were thought to be short-finned pilot whales, a species known to strand "en masse."
16. In recent years, navy sonar has been accused of causing certain whales to strand.
17. They remain stranded in freezing weather and rapidly worsening conditions.
18. Blond strands of hair whipped in the wind.
19. This can be considered the control centre for each strand of hair and is where the glands are found.
20. He began to feed in the spaghetti, carefully separating the strands.
21. He was stranded in a strange city without money.
22. As if that were not enough, a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military transport plane has remained stranded near the runway of Chile's air base here since it crash-landed in 2014.
23. She was wearing a strand of crystal beads.
24. I have knitted many a gray strand into many a scarf.
25. The emperor and his followers were stranded at the foot of the mountain.
26. She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ears.
27. Here's at least a strand of the story.
28. She tried to blow a grey strand of hair from her eyes.
29. Sarah lifted her hand and started twirling a strand of hair.
30. Each strand of hair - and it's human hair - is sewn on individually.
31. It looked like they were going to strand. It was bad weather.
32. This strand fell out naturally, as part of theshedding process.
33. Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken.
34. These produce oil which flows along the length of the hair and the health of the root determines the overall health of the strand of hair.
35. There's some variation depending on hair colour but for an average adult the strand count is 100,000, so losing 100 a day is not too bad.
36. The ship got stranded.
37. In Suruga Bay, a strand of whip coral provides habitat for two shrimps, camouflaged among the polyps.
38. The S strand is ambisense and approximately 3.4 kb in size.
39. We heard every strand of political opinion.
40. He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought.
41. When they mass strand—it's complete panic and chaos.
42. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline.
43. Authorities requisitioned hotel rooms to lodge more than 3,000 stranded Christmas vacationers.
44. Not a strand of her golden hair was out of place.
45. Rescue services have been working round the clock to free stranded motorists.
46. With no village ahead and no inn behind; stranded in an uninhabited area; in the.
47. The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
48. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
49. The climbers had been stranded by a storm.
50. She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
51. She was elegantly dressed with a double strand of pearls about her neck.
52. Pauline wore a silk dress with a strand of pearls.
53. One strand of silk doesn't make a thread; one tree doesn't make a forest.
54. The biography weaves together the various strands of Einstein's life.
