Sentence examples for by threads from inspiring English sources

The white toadstool eyes are watching, connected to the earth by threads of fate and history.

Mona Hatoum is displaying a powerful cage-like, off-kilter globe, with the continents lit by threads of red light.

There seems to be something new and different around each corner, but it's all connected by threads of ideas.

The pollen grains are usually bound together by threads of a clear, sticky substance (viscin) in masses called pollinia.

It was like wearing a garment inside out, just about recognisable but obscured by threads hanging where there should be pattern and shape.

The poem veers towards self-pity in its depiction of a life hanging by threads, which survives only to mature into joylessness.

These were decorated with coloured glazes that were often kept from intermingling by threads of clay (cloisonné technique) or were used in conjunction with the pierced technique (fahua).

Finding her tragedy stitched to a more encompassing one by threads of happenstance, Mrs. Stoller pulled them tight and knotted them.

The forms themselves are delicate, as in "Hanging Garden with a Hammock for Jim," in which tiny, exquisitely hand-fashioned objects are suspended from the ceiling by threads.

Jennings described the computer's avatar as a "glowing blue ball criscrossed by 'threads' of thought 42 threads, to be precise," and stated that the number of thought threads in the avatar was an in-joke referencing the significance of the number 42 in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

According to the original description, Interfilum paradoxum Chodat & Topali is an easily disintegrating filamentous alga, with cells surrounded by bipartite cell walls, dividing by vegetative cell division, forming chains of cells connected by 'threads' of unknown nature (Chodat & Topali, 1922).