Powerful natural forces created and continue to alter the slender strands along the South Shore.

We know how strong this fabric is and that a slender strand of it will support our weight.

The light made the hay strewn over the floor gleam like slender strands of gold.

She felt tired, almost ready to let go of the slender strands linking her with existence.

Now the ladder moved under me, not me over it, as if that tough but slender strand to which we all clung was being hoisted.

Extracting this slender strand inside her called the truth was a delicate operation.

Through half-closed eyes, he still could see that slender strand of imperm wire, how its silvery length had turned to red under the blue flame.

The strands, the slender strands that had bound him to the Ibandi were broken, lost forever.

Jay sat cross-legged beside him, nervously pulling up long, slender strands of grass, then tossing them down.

It is a slender strand, the baymen say.