Sentence examples for a thin thread from inspiring English sources

But even then a result can hang on a thin thread.

"I felt like I was holding onto a balloon with a thin thread".

This is a thin thread on which to hang the appraisal of a living artist.

It shows a thin thread draped over several thick gold electrodes.

It is now protected by just a thin thread of ice between two islands.

Parental authority – single parental authority particularly – is maintained with such a thin thread.

First, the strategic rationale for the weapons rests on a very thin thread of logic.

With the whisk running constantly, trickle the hot syrup in a very thin thread into the egg yolks.

An appeals court upheld the decision even as it noted that the law in this area hangs by a "precariously thin" thread, partly because "Justice Breyer's dedication to his position" in the 2002 case "may be waning".

Describing how he passes the court on Capitol Hill every day, the Democratic senator for Connecticut said: "I can't help but think that its power is based on a very thin thread of credibility.

When a possible evolutionary relationship between two proteins seems to depend on the prediction of shared "mixed beta-strands and alpha helices" (line 373), it is hanging by a very thin thread indeed.