Sentence examples for thread lay from inspiring English sources

The unifying thread lay perhaps in the fact that Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Glazunov were Balanchine's favorite Russian composers.

Bits of fabric and thread lay scattered on the floor of Dior's main salon, while in the ateliers the atmosphere was almost surreal as middle-aged workers in lab coats bent over dresses of savagely cut black neoprene and rocker coats emblazoned with skulls and embroidered graffiti.

The operator then takes the fork, and when the spider has dropped two or three feet, puts in his fork, and gently winds up, pushing forward the fork as it is rotated, so that the thread lies on it in a zig-zag manner.

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

Pull the thread taut to get the thread to lay smooth against the fabric.

Snap the thread into the small plastic thread guide lying directly to the left of the spool pin.

If the top thread is lying flat and the bottom thread is coming right through, then the bobbin tension is too loose.

If the thread is lying flat along the bottom of the fabric and the top thread is going all the way through, then the top tension is too loose.

But it is a common thread that lies uniquely at the intersection of two American obsessions: guns and celebrity.

Residues whose positions are less well established by threading lie on the periphery of the protein (in light gray, Figure 4).

There seemed to be a long laundry list of why venture capital was undergoing this shift, but never any thread that could lay out all the factors and synthesize just how each factor contributed to shift, until now….