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My husband cut our son's umbilical cord.

He caught the cord.

She wore the key on a cord around her neck. They used cords to tie the tent to the trees.

... box in the spinal cord where new wires, new...

After a minute of free fall he pulled the rip cord and out came the parachute.

Central nervous system consists of brain, cerebellum, medulla oblongata and spinal cord.

I think this lamp has a short because the light comes on only if I jiggle the cord.

Bolas are made up of a long cord with two stone balls at the free ends.

A device implanted in the spinal cord, dubbed the Orgasmotron, allows female patients to experience orgasm with the flick of a remote control.

Unfortunately, this cord isn't long enough

The kidnappers tied his hands with a piece of thick cord.

a piece/length of cord

extension cord

The definition of a cord is string or rope. cord = strong thick string.

That extension cord looks dangerous to me. You see where it's frayed there?

This string is strong.

Tie the package with string.

The police say there's someone pulling string behind the scenes.

Tom often thinks of Mary when he hears a string quartet.

silly string

All you do is string together a bunch of farfetched ideas. I can't understand a word of it.

Her heart has been hardening all throughout her string of bad hookups.

Not to harp on the same string, I still insist that those who drink should never drive.

Monotony develops when you harp on the same string.

She was lying on the floor, strangled by a harp string.

Officers patrolled the neighborhood for a month after the string of robberies.

An example of a string instrument is a violin.

Hold your strings tight.

I tried to assemble that with a string, but it didn’t work

The townsfolk were convinced that the string of murders was tied to a satanic cult.

Hold the rope.

It was a real challenge for us to go down the cliff on a rope.

Don't mention rope in the home of a hanged man.

In the United States it is popular for girls to learn to skip rope.

The river is six miles deep in some areas and the only way to cross it is using a pulley and a rope.

I fastened the box tight with a rope so that it wouldn't break up.

Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again? "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."

Jumping rope is my daughter's favorite.

Tom's wife keeps him on such a short rope.

What is this? An offering? "That's right. Put it in this offertory box ... and pull this rope."

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

When do people use a rope to pull a car?

His invention caused his death when he was strangled by the ropes.

Marius watched as Jondrette put a metal bar in the fire and inspected a rope ladder on the table.

They fed me a line about Monday being a holiday, so I took the day off, and it wasn't.

If you are a parent, don't allow yourself to set your heart on any particular line of work for your children.

Each episode of that TV drama ends with somebody delivering a profound line.

From the airport, the Keisei Line Sky-Liner will take you to Ueno Station in 75 minutes.

line (n)

She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

It then became necessary to settle the best route for the line to follow; and that was determined, in the first place, by the shape of the land it had to cross.

If my plane doesn't crash, and if I do not get kidnapped by organ thieves, I will drop you a line at the beginning of the week.

Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.

What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.

But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.

The campers made their own bird feeders with pinecones, peanut butter, and seeds. They hung them from trees with fishing line.

Friendly Reminder: Please keep in mind the closing time of the line you need to switch to, so as to avoid delays in your trip.

Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.

The management tended to be too concerned about short-term improvement of the bottom line to have any long-term design for the future.