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
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 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
Dr. Jeremy declared his belief that Gerty could outwalk them both; and, thus satisfied, Mr. Phillips resumed the broken thread of their discourse, into which Gertrude was drawn almost unawares.
From The Lamplighter by Cummins, Maria S.
The women had taken up anew some broken thread of gossip, but the men were at the piano, insisting too.
From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Saltus, Edgar
