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Meanings of string of words in English

A linear sequence of words as spoken or written.

Usage of string of words in English
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There's going to be something besides a puling string of words now.
The Short Cut
2
After all, what does it amount to but a string of words?
Carl and the Cotton Gin
3
The truck driver was swearing in a long string of words.
Three Soldiers
4
De Glanville let out a yelp of pain and spat a string of words.
Tuck
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After a few seconds, he answered with a string of words muttered in Spanish.
Dreadnought
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A string of words in a language Blake had never heard somehow penetrated his consciousness.
Four dukes and a devil
7
A string of words danced upon her brain, as though the mirrored pearls reflected them.
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
8
There followed an impressive string of words not exclusively but most emphatically of the four-letter kind.
Star trek movie tie-in
9
She began spouting a string of words, ancient-sounding words, not Arabic at all but some other language.
Timeless
10
More than eight years with him, finished with a string of words and a mountain of gold.
The Assassin’s Blade
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After all, telepathy can do infinitely more than invade a mind with a logical string of words.
Prince Lestat
12
He poured out a string of words.
The Monster
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She'd said it once on their way back, but it had been a quick, breathless string of words.
The Assassin’s Blade
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Complications-resulting-from-diabetes was just a string of words to me, and I never gave much thought to their meaning.
The cardturner
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He could knock you off a regular string of words about a woman's eyelashes or her little finger.
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
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The coroner rose, lifted his hand for silence and read a long string of words that Bigger could not understand.
Native son