Sentence examples for slim thread from inspiring English sources

The slim thread keeping the Jets connected to the playoffs all but snapped with this loss.

"If the guy's hanging on by a very slim thread," he said, "he may not be a factor at all".

But after so much zesty misanthropy, the slim thread of nobility that is granted to Philippe and Nathalie in the final scene is almost a disappointment.

On the other, when the slim thread of Delmira's family story finally gives way to wordy cultural and metaphysical rumination, some exhaustion sets in.

Though he spent little more than an hour in Court 73 of the Royal Courts of Justice, Smith dropped the bombshell of the day by handing to the inquiry an email from his private account which could yet sever the slim thread connecting Hunt to his cabinet job.

Now, all of this might have been disastrous -- a Labor Party born in the 1930's might well have wound up controlled by Stalinists -- but my point is that during the Depression crisis our two-party configuration may have hung on the slim thread of Roosevelt's charisma.

Those are slim threads and coincidences to rely upon to preserve the Republic.

I know from experience that sometimes the ones who seem like they have the most going for them can be holding on by the slimmest threads.

Again they choose the meats, vegetables, types of noodles and other ingredients for the final soup, and the waiter carries the bread-filled bowls to the kitchen, where, amazingly, he remembers which bowl belongs to whom, as the bread pellets are tossed into a wok with mutton broth and selected ingredients that might include silky seaweed noodles and green beans as slim as threads.

These animals hang on in Cambodia by the slimmest of threads.

David Coulthard, whose title hopes had hung by the slimmest of threads, finished third for McLaren.