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

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

So soon as the two new-comers were fairly seated and at work, Mrs. Flandin took up the broken thread of her discourse.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

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