How could that be, when the others were running on threads and recycled parts?

Sorting out who said what to whom is a real problem on longer threads.

She needed a strategy of approach, not only to make her way through, but to do it economically enough to get ahead on threads.

He seemed to be more exhausted than hours before, when his life was hanging on a thread.

A user will start a discussion by making a post on a thread.

It was a large black spider hanging on a thread.

This means that legitimate travel discussion may need to be started again on a new thread.

During Earth's history its fate had never hung on such a thin thread!

As I put on a similar thread two days ago:

I've noticed a few people on other threads wondering where their posts have gone.