Sentence examples for delicate thread from inspiring English sources

The delicate thread that holds it all together?

By comparison, the original was decidedly finer, the edges of each square finished with delicate thread work.

He knew how to pull a single, delicate thread of sound out of the snarl and knew how to return to tenderness after a raw outburst.

She seems to think it's hot stuff, based on her farewell note ("Never sever the delicate thread that binds us") but to the outside eye it feels a baffling bunk-up.

Narrow pathways allow visitors to enter this defined space, creating subtle movements as currents of air disturb the delicate threads.

As the delicate threads of a spider's web tremble in the breeze, it might not seem an obvious candidate for a new generation of sustainable materials.

Who praises the delicate threads of the nose until an ever-present handkerchief teaches us that without them we have perpetually runny noses?

Barbules in the basal portions of feathers are long, delicate threads and do not bind successive barbs together; consequently, this part of the feather is fluffy.

Born in Egypt, she is best known for hand-embroidered paintings in which delicate threads are set against bright, Popsicle-color grounds.

There is a giant rainbow made of delicate threads (Gabriel Dawe's "Plexus A1"), and a magenta room with an elaborate arrangement of exotic insects on the wall (Jennifer Angus's "In the Midnight Garden").

Instead, it honored scientists who zeroed in on one of life's central mysteries: how the delicate threads of DNA inside every living cell manage to maintain their integrity.