He placed the wide end in his jaws and began to saw at the strings, producing sounds out of a bad dream.

I pulled at the strings, but I couldn't get them to go together.

Adele looked carefully at the strings because they were of interest to her friend, though she didn't share Daniel's enthusiasm for natural history.

Every now and then, those moments tugged at the strings of his heart.

And he was stabbing at the strings with short rough strokes of the bow.

But every time I do," he sighed, looking at the two broken strings, "this is the result.

You know, the sort of thing that tugs at the strings of your heart.

He grasped at the strings of reality and held them tightly.

Laszlo plucked at the strings that had once held a button in place.

Then she stopped in front of a mirror and tugged at the strings until the bikini was comfortable.