Sentence examples for by the thread from inspiring English sources

"They caught him by the thread of his one breath / and pulled him up.

Washington is a practice-squad player, a fringe player whose career hangs by the thread of a team's shifting needs.

Modern forensic systems can map out email conversations by the thread "headers" and show any gaps or inconsistencies.

The girl is impressed by the warmth of Ralph's family & particularly by the thread of light, easy laughter that seems to run through everything.

Her only argument against them was that she and Lord Jagannath were joined by the thread of eternal really eternal love.

With the gap bridged by the thread, the sensor becomes functional.

Here were two of the finest point guards in basketball going at it in a game that would either send the Nets into the second round of the playoffs, or keep the hanging-by-the-thread hopes of the Knicks alive.

"We're hanging on by the threads," Mr. Morano said.

When the artist Raphael drew them, the networks he had in mind were often those made by the threads stretched across a loom.

It's multiple groups with different causes loosely tied together by the threads of anti-U.S. sentiment, some sort of Iraqi nationalism, Muslim-Arab unity or greed".

Modern researchers have been intrigued by the threads' elasticity.