Sentence examples for a slight thread from inspiring English sources

The occluder was inserted through a small incision into the ECA and was gently advanced into the ICA, until a drop in CBF of 75% or greater associated with a slight thread progression resistance was observed.

All the usual Wodehousean suspects are here – the fierce aunt, the overbearing gardener, the uncomfortably stiff collar – and the plot hangs on a characteristically slight thread.

It is a slender thread.

The 10 teams playing on Christmas, including the Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets, will wear uniforms featuring a monochromatic color scheme with a slight secondary color thread to identify numbers and the names on the jerseys.

When the number of threads is between four and eight, we still observe a slight rise in performance; thanks to the hyper-threading technology.

Working with only the slightest threads of evidence — two brief 1946 clippings from the local newspaper and Spann's death certificate — Wilkerson finds that his investigation is far from a mere footnote; it expands to touch on the historic while encountering history's enduring force in the present day.

Earlier that day, her brown hair had received rivers of blond highlights, and a slight man named Sid had plucked her eyebrows with a piece of twisted thread.

There was also a slight danger of damaging the heart valve through which the lead had been threaded in 2005, when doctors had screwed the tip into muscle in the bottom of the right ventricle of his heart.

The common thread among these two surveys and others released in recent days is a slight upward trend for Romney and a modest decline for Obama since March.

A slight?

A slight smile rose.