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broken thread

NOUN
missing link
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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

“When it does, it is a broken thread, and no Anneys can knot it again.”

From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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




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