The big man was standing at the window, flipping worry beads and stating out.

All other concerns pale as mothers play with worry beads, never free of "Are they no longer contagious?"

Usually the length of worry beads is approximately two palm widths.

She blanched and began to use her glasses as worry beads.

Here and there, a soldier fingered a strand of worry beads.

He looked down at the worry beads twined around his fingers.

The scalpel wasn't fair, he decided, fingering his worry beads for the last time.

He fingered the automatic as if it were a set of worry beads.

Said they'd have my balls for worry beads if I didn't help them.

"He should be involved in a cause," his publicist said, twirling her worry beads.