broken thread

Example Sentences

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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

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

Pamela waited for him to continue, and at last he took up the broken thread.

From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Reed, Helen Leah

Holding fast to what she still had to say, the actress picked up a broken thread.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar