broken thread
Example Sentences
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As the clumps of men stretched and thinned into a long, broken thread, Louie sank through the field, to twelfth.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
How do we begin, I wonder, to take up the broken thread of our long-ago story?
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
The Davenport brothers escaped from their spirit cabinet, but one of the professors discovered a piece of broken thread on the floor.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
When Ariosto repieced the broken thread, the spirit of the times was changed.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
Holding fast to what she still had to say, the actress picked up a broken thread.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar
