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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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
I began to try to fit the button on the broken thread, just as though it would stick fast by that means; and moreover, I began to smile and went on smiling.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various