Sentence examples for by a thin thread from inspiring English sources

These small wicks were dipped into sucrose solutions or water and presented to the proboscis by making contact by a thin thread on the tip of the wick.

Because many of the spore chains of CBS7841 are intact, it is intriguing that higher magnification SEM also revealed that the spores of CBS7841 are often connected by a thin thread or spike-like structure (supporting File S1).

During a measurement, the phantom-lesion is suspended by a thin thread, invisible for DOT, at about half way down the cup and slightly decentered.

Close your eyes and imagine yourself suspended from the ceiling by a thin thread.

If the scrotum is hanging off by a thin thread of tissue, you can surgically remove it with a scalpel and apply antiseptic.

I kept thinking of that song, "We Almost Lost Detroit," throughout this episode — for the obvious reason, but also because decency is hanging on by such a thin thread in Weiner's world, even within high-ground stalwarts like Peggy and Ted.

If, despite the industry receiving billions in implicit public subsidies and guarantees, the largest sector in the UK economy hangs by such a thin thread, its value-added must be seriously questioned.

Not hard (the craft was only travelling at a leisurely one metre per second) but enough to keep it airborne for several hours -imagine the lander barely moving as it floats hundreds of metres above the surface, attached by only a thin thread of gravity.

We marked the position of the caterpillars by tying a thin thread on the plant just behind the abdominal prolegs, taking care not to disturb the caterpillars.

The spring is held in position by an anchoring mechanism which consists of a thin thread connected to the piston and to a heating element which is mounted on a circular printed circuit board.

As a federal appeals court put it in 1992, "Eyewitness evidence, uncorroborated by a fingerprint, gun, confession or co-conspirator testimony, is a thin thread to shackle a man".