The stock market, rising for much of the month because of a steady string of higher earnings reports, plunged yesterday in heavy trading.

Chapter 8 Twig kept up a steady string of curses as they drove into DC.

It was yet another in the steady string of untroubled days that have become commonplace for a President who once seemed to attract trouble routinely.

A steady string of goodbyes were called out across an almost dark parking lot.

Since this debut, Gurdeep has released a steady string of underground recordings and remixes (see discography below).

Over the years, Mr. Russell turned out a steady string of books, marked by careful historical research combined with a distinctive and entertaining narrative style.

One of them, a Volvo assembly plant attracted steady strings of autorack cars until it closed in 1998.

Gordon gave Auburn fits with a steady string of baseline jumpers that kept falling.

Make that females, plural, a steady string of them, sometimes several at the same time, like bees swarming around a saucer of honey.

On a recent afternoon, Mr. Rosa answered a steady string of phone calls about aspects of the watershed deal.