Example Sentences

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The team thinks these worms’ movements can possibly help researchers program stringlike filaments in soft robotic systems to actively shape-shift.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

It was. he recalls, a black taffeta with puffy short sleeves, a full skirt and stringlike belt.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mushrooms are aboveground appendages of the real organism, a tangled mass of stringlike tendrils that spread below the surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some versions, it proposes that what appear to us as particles are really stringlike loops that exist in a space-time with 10 dimensions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both were long chains made of four components, called bases, strung together along a stringlike chain or backbone.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee