fine thread

There was a fine thread of light broken by an obstruction.

His voice was a fine thread, drawn tight by pain and effort.

A fine thread started to separate itself from the cocoon.

You should have long, fine threads hanging over the rolling pin.

If she could only get the fine threads of sinew to go into the hole and out the other side.

A fine thread of a whisper beside him said: "Yes."

This fine thread of humanism can be experienced in almost all his stories.

It refers to the fine threads or wires used in the device.

But there's as much to be said for the fine threads of daily exchanges between all these communities that hold this city together.

Who could possibly harvest the fine threads of such webs?

- You know, comrades, we are all hanging on a fine thread here.

She felt the last fine threads of resistance snapping.

She stretched a fine thread between her delicate hands.

Etiquette, like politics, is a complex weaving of fine threads.

There were no skilled hands or fine thread with which to sew up the wound.

He wound a few fine threads on his finger, and they made but a turn and a half.

Bobbin lace may be made with coarse or fine threads.

Naturally the reeds were adapted for the far finer thread.

Kurgan bit his lip until he tasted a fine thread of blood.

"You spun finer thread than I when you were seven years old!"

This is because extra fine threads are more resistant to coming loose from vibrations.

Its shape has been described as a "string of beads" connected by a very fine thread.

Quentin felt the last fine threads of strength and will leave him and he knew no more.

Up to an hour ago I'd had only one fine thread to follow: the name of a village where there was a clockmaker.

The fibers were not spun into fine thread but twisted together as in twine.