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 broken thread of spirit will soon begin to join, and by continuing the operation a sufficient time all the bubbles will disappear, and the thermometer become as good as ever.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

Above all, she proved quicker than the other women in such emergencies as a broken thread.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert