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Example Sentences

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Despite the thread that can be woven between his works now, Pollan says he never could’ve anticipated the direction his personal and professional journeys, one in the same, would’ve taken him.

From Los Angeles Times

The talismanic vocabulary of falconry is threaded through this raw-nerved memoir by an experienced British falconer who dealt with the pain of losing a father by training a young goshawk called Mabel.

From The Wall Street Journal

But after a lengthy VAR review, the referee overturned his decision to leave Milan's title hopes hanging by a thread.

From Barron's

Then 27th-ranked Italy, in their first World Cup, needed 30 from the last two overs in Kolkata on Monday for a giant-killing that could have left England's World Cup hopes hanging by a thread.

From Barron's

Two weeks before the show, young seamstresses were crocheting floral motifs in mohair and Japanese metallic thread at a south London studio overlooking the Thames river and Big Ben.

From Barron's