Definitions

lose the thread

VERB

ramble

Synonyms

STRONGEST

babble digress meander wander

STRONG

amplify blather chatter depart descant divagate diverge drift drivel enlarge expatiate gossip maunder prose protract stray

WEAK

be diffuse beat around bush dwell on excurse get off the subject go astray go off on tangent go on and on harp on rant and rave rattle on talk nonsense talk off top of head talk randomly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

go direct stay

STRONG

abridge compress condense curtail decrease lessen reduce shorten

WEAK

be direct

Example Sentences

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This is the moment where so many Thanksgiving tables lose the thread.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025

The reporters by then were beginning to lose the thread.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

The problem is if they dump the puck, lose a battle or lose the thread of the play, as they often have, the offense doesn’t create much.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022

Whenever he tried to read anything substantial, Carr wrote, “I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. … The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.”

From Slate • Aug. 16, 2018

In two hundred years it is, as we have found, easy to lose the thread.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

lose the thread

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