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

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

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