Example Sentences

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The surprise, with this well-strung two-part documentary, was how few cynics there were.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2012

The ablest lexicographers define it as 'strong, well-strung, full of nerve,' whereas, in ordinary parlance, it has come to signify the very opposite of these.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

At his mother's request, Charmides rose at once and brought out his well-strung lyre.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

Yet are they recommended, and with well-strung reasons, by writers of gravity and note, as simple and easy methods of studying character, and gratifying that laudable curiosity which aims at the knowledge of man.

From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love

Before the threshold was a group of men, whose iron and well-strung muscles, whose short and Herculean necks, whose hardy and reckless countenances, indicated the champions of the arena.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron