Main drags

Usage examples of strips.

Some with no words at all, just pictures, little Crayola comic strips purporting to relate her own story back to her, tracing a narrow escape from murderous nondemocratic forces all the way to ultimate techno-cure and consignment to happy, waiting ranch family.

Despite the dirt streaking their bodies, they had made an effort to keep their hair neat, tying it back into loose braids with strips of cloth.

Hanna studied the floor, strips of marble and porphyry set into expanding and contracting spirals.

Sorrow nosed among the tangled, scorched legs of sheep with strips of skin still hanging from bone.

The wound was so raw and so deep that she feared touching it would only break it open, but she cut strips from his tunic in any case to make a pad and lightly cover the gash.

Hugh halted to study the symbols carved into the stone: more spirals and lozenges, and long strips of hatching and even, here and there, dots and lines that looked like a calendar.

Indeed, staring through the hazy day toward the fields it seemed to him that the entire field was poisoned by black rot, as thick as flies on honey, and he heaved himself up and walked, weaving because he really was getting light-headed from hunger, out to the fields and down those long strips brushing his hands over the heads of rye.

Lovett, fingering shreds of ancient fabric that still adhered to wooden strips along the fuselage, shook his head.

The women cut the meat gro into strips and festooned it on the smoking racks above the smouldering fires of green wood.

The bows were of hard, elastic wood, bound with strips of green kudu hide which had been allowed to dry and shrink on the shaft until they were hard as iron.

Anne and Sarah settled the bottle and canisters on his back, and then strapped them in place with strips of canvas cut from the seat covers.

And soon as the men had prayed and flung the barley, first they lifted back the heads of the victims, slit their throats, skinned them and carved away the meat from the thighbones and wrapped them in fat, a double fold sliced clean and topped with strips of flesh.

Halogen light stretched in broken strips from the station up the beach.

Sinkholes in the whole mythology of progress gape open up and down the street, suck down entire retail strips at a shot.

The textures of the silky cotton he strips away from her are infinite.