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

So soon as the two new-comers were fairly seated and at work, Mrs. Flandin took up the broken thread of her discourse.

From Diana by Warner, Susan