Sentence examples for a slender thread from inspiring English sources

It is a slender thread.

In other words, they were attached by a slender thread.

It seems a slender thread to bear so much weight.

By such a slender thread can careers hang.

Remarkable stuff for a second-year player whose N.F.L. career hung by a slender thread.

Among his four albums are "Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread," released in April.

Still, this book must be taken seriously, if only as a reminder that survival in a world threatened by real dangers hangs by a very slender thread.

From the time he made his first full-length feature, "The Slender Thread," about a social work student coaxing a woman out of suicide on a help line, Mr. Pollack had a hit-and-miss relationship with the critics.

Everything between these teams has seemed to rest on the slender thread of a single shot.

By the end, this idealism is chastened but not entirely defeated, and he sees his work as a slender, fragile thread that might connect people across chasms of cultural difference and historical ignorance.

From the pier, 795 feet into the river, out among wheeling gulls and diving ducks, out where the slap of river swells is audible, the George Washington Bridge looks less like a muscular Erector set than a slender, silvery thread drawn through the sky.