Sentence examples for a reel of thread from inspiring English sources
On Monday Susanna Harris, an ancient textiles expert from Glasgow university, studied an unprepossessing bundle of blackened fibres and found a reel of thread spun from plant fibre, finer than a human hair.
The wire thus obtained is coiled round a reel about three inches in diameter shaped like an ordinary reel of thread, technically known as pairee, which is fixed at one end of a small table about a foot high by a spike running through the centre (Plate I): at the other end of the table is similarly fixed a larger reel about 6 inches in diameter.
Fittingly, the projector was positioned in a piazzetta near the Cineteca di Bologna as the sun was setting, and threaded with a reel of the first films ever projected – the 50-second slices of life shot by the Lumière brothers in 1895.
Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.
She stows a spool of thread and a needle threaded with the thread.
Then I start on a reel of questions.
James Lees's short film was a reel of illustrated apologies.
Nowadays you have to send in a reel of yourself".
One man was carrying a reel of 70‐millimeter film.
Stephen Johnson explores Peter Maxwell Davies', A Reel of Seven Fishermen.
