Sentence examples for a spool of thread from inspiring English sources

Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.

His spins were tight and quick, like a spool of thread unraveling.

"Couldn't you," I asked, pointing to a spool of thread, "sew my sleeves?" He was no longer confused.

If glamour were easy, the entire fashion industry could do its thing on Sunday afternoons with a spool of thread and a few yards of gauze.

"As long as you have a single needle and a spool of thread — and a first-rate marketing team — you can do it".

The latest novel's title refers to a spool of thread that presents itself to a character at a key moment, just as it did for Tyler.

With one omission: Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread (Vintage).

We have, in Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, a multi-generational family saga told with astonishing sensitivity and command.

The other books were Tom McCarthy's Satin Island; Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways; Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen; and Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread.

Kimberly Shields, from the website The characters in Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread (Chatto & Windus) are so fully formed I felt I was reading a family album.

The other books on the shortlist were Tom McCarthy's Satin Island; Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways; Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen; and Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread.