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

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

There's something pagan and magnificent about it—a sort of broken thread in me that matches the tapestry of it all.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

Thus ceased the god; nor slow was I the broken thread to join, But of the last words that he spake, thus trode the heels with mine.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various