broken thread
Example Sentences
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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
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
But Geoffrey to whom the situation has its charm, takes up the broken thread.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
Pamela waited for him to continue, and at last he took up the broken thread.
From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed
