strings
/stɹɪŋz/ noun B1- Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
- Conditions, especially undesirable ones. · It looks like a good offer, but there are strings attached.
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The Scarecrow and the Woodman now began to fasten the mice to the truck, using the strings they had brought.
“My fiddle would be the better for new strings,” he remarked.
Phillips was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as they pleased eating green apples, whispering, drawing pictures on their slates, and driving crickets harnessed to strings, up and down aisle.
They had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon it.)
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