Sentence examples for a thread of glass from inspiring English sources

The ability to zap light down a thread of glass was first mastered in the 1850s, largely for experimental purposes.

15 1 A THREAD OF GRACE, by Mary Doria Russell.

Is a thread of irony at work?

Draw a thread of events together.

"I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass".

Indeed, two "paintings" in his collection led him down an unexpected path because they were not in fact paintings but micromosaics, a term he later coined to describe mosaics that use threads of glass to create an impression of a painting.

When it came, it was a squawking, ducklike sound, odd in its guttural overtones, yet paradoxically bright, shiny, and thin, like a drawn thread of hot glass.

The cables begin as a cluster of strands of tiny threads of glass fibers.

Now that the economy is weakening, America is starting to look like a high-technology Gulliver, tied down by costly Lilliputian threads of glass.

On this core the body of the vessel was built up, usually of opaque blue glass, on which, in turn, were coiled threads of glass of contrasting colour.

His discovery of how to spend it came almost accidentally, in 1968, when a California auctioneer interested him in tiny paintings that turned out to be micromosaics, images created by threads of glass.