Sentence examples for pulled thread from inspiring English sources

She dressed for the clubs in bubbles of tulle with fishing-wire straps, and "wearable sculptures" of pulled thread.

Every seam, every cobweb strand of duct-tape gum, every laddered fish-net stocking or visible ridge of underpants elastic — every stray mark, pulled thread, speck of dust — acts to spoil what is instantly revealed to have been, all along, an illusion.

Colt sits up on an elbow, and it seems to help: he hears his father say, 'I'm not in the mood to discuss this.' Tabby answers, and her voice has a pulled thread: Rex replies, and his voice has a spine.

We find pulled thread and stains, which we can fix.

When you have gone all the way along both sides of the pulled thread, go over the row again, arranging the thread back into position.

Pull thread taut so that thread lies smooth against the fabric.

"They are pulling threads that bind the Republicans and the Likud together".

Bala interpreted these thinkers idiosyncratically, pulling threads here and there, and often twisting and turning and distorting them, until he had braided them into his own radical philosophy.

"We're pulling threads and it turns out the other end of the thread is in New Mexico or Connecticut or Illinois or in California," he said.

At first, I thought of drawn-thread work - where you pull threads in one direction to create a diaphanous line, like the ladder in a stocking.

So, why not pull threads?