strand

a strand of cotton.

remnant strands of hair.

a herd of stranded passengers.

a whale stranded on the shore

The convoy was stranded in the desert.

Preassembled parallel wire strands, in contrast to structural strands, do not require prestretching.

be stranded in London without any money

the ships were stranded in shallow water.

two of the firm's lorries are stranded in France.

he touched a strand of her hair.

twist a length of rope from strands of hemp.

Each strand of spider silk is 1,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair.

How do Cubans sort the different strands of his legacy?

The culture of our human world is woven from many different strands.

I isolated a strand of the virus from Mon-El's blood.

Most of my hair is brown, but there are some grey strands there.

Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken.

The right approach for America, therefore, has three strands.

However, we also wish to model the water droplets contained within one tiny hair strand.

Excellent! She thought. I'll weave these strands into the baby's blanket. Some starlight, too.

It turns out that you can make pretty big things by tweaking small strands of DNA.