Sentence examples for at a thread from inspiring English sources

As one forum poster put it, The Economist has tugged at a thread hanging from the coat.

Fangfang rested her head on my arm, and we looked up at a thread of cloud that was about to disappear into the blue sky.

But other testimony has hinted at a thread of rage and perhaps misogyny as well, with witnesses telling the court about disparaging comments Sergeant Bales made about his wife and his frustration at failing to gain promotion faster.

One highly suggestive work, Man Creating Bird (1948), is a lyrical and mildy disturbing allegory of a man with an upraised hand pulling at a thread attached to a squawking bird's throat held in his other hand.

The initial joint failure mode was bearing, while final failure was either due to fastener pull-through or fastener fracture at a thread.

Much less hole bearing damage, and hence energy absorption, occurred when the fastener(s) fractured at a thread, which occurred most frequently in thick joints and in quasi-static tests.

You'll be surprised at what a thread of good green olive oil can add to a vegetable soup.

Well, at least one American politician acknowledged the umbilical cord that lay between Manning and Swartz, or at least a thread of it anyway.

At Haji Ali, a thread of cut rock connects the tomb and mosque to the Mumbai shore.

This is nerd sniping at its finest – a thread that many engineers can't help but tug.

Britni Daniell, entertainment and culture director at Ebony, started a thread focused on putting a spotlight on the stories of black women killed as a result of domestic violence.