Sentence examples for thin threads from inspiring English sources

At the leptotene stage the chromosomes appear as long, thin threads.

But with the thin threads left, the prosecutors convicted one defendant.

Males of the common bark-inhabiting millipede Polyxenus transfer sperm by spinning thin threads on which they place sperm drops; they then construct two parallel thicker threads on which they place a pheromone to attract the female.

Buddhists and Muslims in western Myanmar have had an uneasy coexistence for decades, and in some areas for centuries, but the thin threads that held together the social fabric of Rakhine State have torn apart this year.

"If they really believe that their case turns on being able to surprise a witness, I think their case rests on fairly thin threads to begin with," Ms. Coakley said.

In the church of San Juan de Chamula, it's the toasted green of pine needles strewn across the floor, and it's the thin threads woven almost invisibly into the white wool tunics of indigenous Chamulan men.

"I felt like I was holding onto a balloon with a thin thread".

This is a thin thread on which to hang the appraisal of a living artist.

But even then a result can hang on a thin thread.

Parental authority – single parental authority particularly – is maintained with such a thin thread.

His friend Rabbi Lionel Blue wrote that now "our only contact is a thin thread of memory and his songs.