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85 examples of Strand in a sentence

So this means, if we take 400 of our nanoparticles and we stack them on top of each other, we get the thickness of a single hair strand.
This whole idea that everything needs to be exactly the same works for a very very few strand of companies, and not for everybody else.
Just as one strand of spaghetti contacts many other strands on your plate, one neuron touches many other neurons through their entangled branches.
Luckily, the genetic testing proved that, in fact, this strand came north, because, had it come from the south, it would have had a much wider impact in terms of transmission.
The lumpy narrative blobs gracelessly from one character to another, one plot strand to another, without ever bringing it all together, and it doesn't help that William Baldwin's mono-expression of a performance is wet enough to put out every fire in the movie's overlong runtime.
This is a new strand in American movies, or perhaps an old strand brought back at long last.
A Navy pilot (to fly the helicopter), a Commander (to star in the movie), and a Machinist Mate (to strand them good by busting a part with a hammer and running down the radio battery too soon) fly over Antarctic but get lost in a hole in the ground.
The mix-and-match mode - as strand crosses strand, weaving a rich texture of reality versus illusion, fiction versus fact, and dream versus daylight - the enjoyment being in the management (in each viewer's mind) of the strands, understanding when the author's fiction is being played-out across the screen; and when we are back again inside the movie-director's mind (as opposed to one of his character's i.e the novelist).
Again some bland teenagers (one of them the son of the couple from the first film) strand on the same island, try to survive, fall in love, make love and so on.
Needing to grasp on to a strand of optimism, perhaps only the thickness of a human hair, I long ago decided that the film existed purely as a textbook demonstration for future filmmakers on how not to make a successful sequel to a hit movie.
Horrible acting.. rigid and without a single strand of imagination or panache.
The plot strand of the young bride forced to get married under the threat of rape is particularly offensive and what is laughable is the expertly millennial sex that this putative virgin enjoys on her wedding night.
In the central plot conflict, the affair with the count, she is the spider weaving every strand of the web.
You know, this film actually has excellent animation with loads of potential, but every last strand of it's potential is wasted with the film's awful animation direction.
One way to approach this question is to imagine modern Chinese history as resembling the double-helix structure of DNA, comprising a strand of openness and one of authoritarianism.
In Xi’s “New Era,” it is the authoritarian strand that is dominant.
History will tell whether a recessive strand of openness may persist.
As recently as the 1980’s, phone calls over copper wire could carry only one page of information per second; today, a thin strand of optical fiber can transmit 90,000 volumes in a second.
In addition, France has long had a strand of cultural anti-Americanism.
In his staunch commitment to advancing social justice, Sanders also clearly embraces this strand of American Jewish identity.
It featured six scenarios of possible futures, including a world in which full three-dimensional casts of human faces can be created from a single strand of DNA; buildings are covered with a skin capable of photosynthesis, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen; and death can be beaten by bringing back those who choose to be cryogenically preserved.
US foreign policy is littered with absurd, tragic, and hugely destructive foreign wars that served no real purpose except the pursuit of some misguided strand of official propaganda.
There has always been a strand of thinking in Washington that dislikes foreign entanglements, in this and other areas.
Another strand of research deals with crisis management, but without examining the impact on longer-term growth.
Airborne pollutants, especially fine particles (smaller than 2.5 microns, or roughly the width of a strand of a spider web), enter deep into the lungs and from there enter the blood stream, causing cardiopulmonary disease, cancer, and possibly premature births.
But I also know that ensuring long-term security will require many more agreements, each one a crucial strand in a region-wide web of freedom and prosperity.
The final, other-directed strand of Arab culture is arguably the most dominant: those whom Riesman would have called the “lonely Arab crowd.”
While the Iraq War discredited the idea of coercive democratization, both Republicans and Democrats have a strong strand of idealism in their foreign policy orientations.
For the past three decades, one strand within the economics profession was constructing models that assumed that markets worked perfectly.
The third strand of multilateralism that mitigates the risks posed by the Sino-American rivalry recalls the early nineteenth-century Concert of Europe, whereby the great powers of the time sought to resolve matters of mutual interest through multilateral consultations.
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