They range from 1 to 16,000+ on a single string.

I said she's tried to keep you on a string just in case she didn't land the next fish.

George's head came up as if it was on a string.

Such a note is said to be played on an open string.

"She seems to have had everybody on her string at one time or another," I said.

His life was being pulled out of him like a fish on a string.

And each of them would have paid $19.99 for a rock on a string.

It's not like I've been on a short string with only one and a half years to do it.

It is like when you have a ball on a string.

At times he made the ball look like it was on a string.