threads

How to use threads in a sentence

In gonorrhoea gonococci are sometimes found in the sediment, but more commonly in the "gonorrheal threads," or "floaters."

Isabel longed for the time when she should enter them and pick up the threads dropped from her mother's nerveless fingers.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

After peace was declared the new Marshal returned to Dalmatia and took up the threads of his old life.

And once Mother Oriole found, caught in the shutter, little threads of Hepzebiah's hair.

SEVEN O'CLOCK STORIESROBERT GORDON ANDERSON

It is true, I could see them; but not with sufficient distinctness to insure the proper insertion of the initial threads.

These are now used alike in making fine threads and yarns and in large ropes.

The threads of the rope were being cut through and in a few moments she would be free.

These threads in the web of industry, which had shone that day for the first time, were the lives of two little children.

The bands that you think to be threads, are iron bands that are clasping you not only for your grave, but forever.

The residue in the dish after evaporation was a tough reddish brown, gummy mass which could be drawn out into fine threads.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985