broken thread
Example Sentences
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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
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
The young people returned to their places, and quickly forgot the incident, as they gayly took up the broken thread of conversation.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
It went through quietly," Masterson sullenly picked up the broken thread, "because she bargained with me.
From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
