Synonyms:
string_section, strings
Meaning: the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments
Usage examples
Another confiscated the strings of beads from around his neck.
Like the jangling of all the strings of some musical instrument
Skin and clean a five-pound cut of sturgeon, and tie into shape with strings.
He might go forth unquestioned and thrum the strings of jollity as free as any gay bachelor there.
They had strings of brass wire which were tuned by a key, not very different from the present tuning-key.
Once out of the house, she walked slowly along through the shady orchard, swinging her sunbonnet by the strings.
Not long after this, Avenant found an owl caught in a snare, he cut the strings, and freed the trembling captive.
Beneath their pierced, distended earlobes there dangled strings of beads made from bone. Generally these savages were naked.
Reaching and kicking upward with his tiny hands and feet, he played with the dangling strings of his heavy-beaded bonnet hanging empty on a tent pole above him.
Then the ends of these strings were tied on to the front of the ship; and the swallows took hold of the strings with their feet and flew off, pulling the boat along.