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
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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
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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
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What a strange and thrilling sensation it is when we take up some long-dropped link in life, go back to some broken thread of our existence, and try to attach it to the present!
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
What followed the revelation of Betrayal—A gleam of Hope for Eleanor Hill—A relative from California, a projected Voyage, and a Disappointment—One more Letter—The broken thread resumed—Carlton Brand's farewell, and a sudden Elopement.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford