'strand' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'strand' with 9 example sentences.
- strand noun
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: a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
: line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
: a necklace made by stringing objects together
: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
: a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- strand verb
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: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
: drive (a vessel) ashore
: bring to the ground
Would you want to be stranded on a deserted island with her?
I was stranded on a small island.
I'm stranded here at the airport.
The airline provided free accommodation to stranded passengers as a goodwill gesture.
She twisted a strand of hair around her finger.
The British Expeditionary Force was stranded at Dunkirk.
In the morning, we found a stranded dolphin.
She was stranded in the city.
You can feel the worm as a painful strand under the skin.