How to use cord in a sentence

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• You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.From the entry string
• She bought a roll of black gaff to tape down the loose cords.From the entry gaff
• Many of the low-cost accessories (cords, chargers, etc) sold in the dollar store had spotty quality.From the entry spotty
• Wireless phone technology led to the disappearance of once-common coiled cords for telephone handsets.From the entry disappearance
• If you unground the extension cord it will cause a shock hazard in that drill.From the entry unground
• My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.From the entry flit
• Let's get some gaff tape to secure these cords!From the entry gaff tape
• Seeing the trip cord of a bouncing Betty nearby gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods.From the entry trip cord
• The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.From the entry bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Cords and rhizomorphs are a good reminder that mycelial networks are transport networks.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 63. From the entry rhizomorph
• Still, the new species does show FMRFamide and serotonin in perykarya along the nerve cords.2015 July 9, “An Integrated Morphological and Molecular Approach to the Description and Systematisation of a Novel Genus and Species of…. From the entry perykarya
• The spinal cord at the time of injury may be subjected to hyperbending, overstretching, twisting, or laceration.2015 July 9, Vikram Sabapathy, George Tharion, Sanjay Kumar, “Cell Therapy Augments Functional Recovery Subsequent to Spinal Cord Injury…. From the entry hyperbending
• Before that, it was as if the pull cord was tangled.2015 June 25, Joe R[owan], “Power washer with Honda engine won't start.”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet). From the entry mucho thankso
• Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord.2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble. From the entry lawnmow
• About to be overtaken, she pulled a cord near her chest.2012 December, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Elyse
• Then, to her annoyance, the emotional, nonaloof, nonproper woman seized her vocal cords.2011, Leslie Parrish, Cold Touch: Extrasensory Agents. From the entry nonaloof
• The syndromes are manifestations of lesions in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves, separately or together.2010, Lewis P. Rowland with Paul H. Gordon, “Hereditary and Acquired Spastic Paraplegia”, in Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy A. Pedley, editors…. From the entry myeloneuropathy
• Then the smiling narrator filled me with doom: I was expected to pull my own rip cord.2009 March, Deanna Roy, “Forget the rules and make the leap”, in Writer, volume 122, number 3, page 15. From the entry doom
• Its green light selectively destroys the blood vessels feeding the tumor without burning the vocal cords.2008 May 6, Lawrence K. Altman, “Lasers May Treat Cancers of the Larynx”, in New York Times. From the entry photoangiolytic
• Such procedures may involve surgically separating the spinal cord from the brain.2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement. From the entry spinalize
• The hoover stopped and the man wound in the cord, admiring his handiwork.2007, Olivia Liberty, Falling, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN. From the entry hoover
• Radiographic changes resembling B₁₂ deficiency in the cervical spinal cord have been described.2006 November, B. P. Goodman with B. W. Chong, A. C. Patel, G. P. Fletcher, and B. E. Smith, “Copper Deficiency Myeloneuropathy Resembling…. From the entry myeloneuropathy
• I was desperately searching for the emergency cord when I landed spread-eagle in the frozen creek bed.2005, Dan Rodgers, I Thought You Brought the Can Opener. From the entry foof
• The bursa may be very firm, pachyntic and filled out with fibrous cords.2003, Georg Lajtai, Gregory Applegate, Shoulder Arthroscopy and MRI Techniques, page 35. From the entry pachyntic
• He tied the splint into place with cord he'd made from long, threadish needle-grass awns.2000, Terry Schiffman, Adam and Even, page 130. From the entry threadish
• The pay phone on the corner has been vandalized, and its metal cord hangs limply down, receiverless.1998, David R. Karp, Community Justice: An Emerging Field, page 50. From the entry receiverless
• This near-term gray reef pup bears a pseudo-umbilical cord that connects the young shark to maternal tissue.1993, Leighton R. Taylor, Sharks of Hawaii: Their Biology and Cultural Significance, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry pseudo-umbilical
• This paper reports on neoplastic disease of the spine and spinal cord.1991, G Sze, M Twohig, “Neoplastic disease of the spine and spinal cord”, in Scott W. Atlas, editors, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the…. From the entry extramedullary
• Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords.1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House, published 2008, Part IV. From the entry chick-blind
• Neonates with abrachia have dysplasia of the spinal cord segment corresponding to the leg defect.1984, Harold Kalter, Issues and Reviews in Teratology, volume 2, page 103. From the entry abrachia
• When the cord was pulled, all the threads attached to it would lift in unison.1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 108-109. From the entry drawboy
• Turns of shock cord, securing tack to centre of forebeam, stretch as the wind increases.1975, Bob Ross, Introduction to Yacht Racing, page 111. From the entry forebeam
• The cord goes taut, tauter, tautest, till down she trips and Adam has a good laugh.1971, Yoram Kaniuk, “The Barking”, in [Lazarre] Seymour Simckes, transl., Adam Resurrected: Translated from the Hebrew, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry taut
• Atticus did something that interested us: he came into the livingroom carrying a long electrical extension cord.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott…. From the entry light bulb

Meaning of cord

1. noun A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
2. noun Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
3. noun A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.

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Questions about cord in a sentence

How do you use cord in a sentence?

Cord is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.”

What is a short sentence with cord?

“cord of spittle”

What does cord mean?

Cord means a long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).