How to Use thread in a Sentence

thread

1 of 2 noun
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  • A thread was hanging from the hem of her coat.
  • Cover the first two-thirds of the shank with thread from the hook eye toward the bend.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Over the years, more women have been added to their email thread.
    — Ella Lee, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One of her colleagues backed her up on the same email thread.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • With deft strokes of her needle and thread, Lowe brought out the best of her clients.
    — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Civil didn’t need to be told about the love thread winding through the book.
    — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Schmidt stacked at least two — maybe more — threads of that part to get a chunky sound.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The thread count is also indicative of weight and feel.
    — Samantha Crompton, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2023
  • But the rest of the components — the fabric, the thread, the liner — were all made across the Pacific.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Perhaps the new movie will pick up on that hanging plot thread.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Waskom made it to the qualifying round by the thread of his bowling laces.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The link to the Google document was also deleted from the Reddit thread.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Bring your current project of yarn, thread, bead, fiber or paper.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • That’s when a thread attempting to find a fix for the issue — which seemed small at the time — started on the GBA Temp forum.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And the firm’s tech was apparently hanging on by a thread, too.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There were a few other hilarious clips in the thread, so be sure to click above to scroll through them all.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2023
  • To keep that living cloth intact, every thread plays a role, even the humble ant.
    — Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Though kids were the common thread of the episode, some TLC stars had very different views on children.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The rumor has grabbed many fans' attention and there's even a Reddit thread on the topic.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The two other fates, Lachesis and Atropos dispensed and cut the thread.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This baby boasts a chic slope and some real breathable threads.
    — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In a text thread between the network’s prime-time opinion hosts, outrage flowed.
    — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Afterward, punch holes in each snowflake and thread through hemp, jute or cotton twine.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The most intriguing thread that all their answers had in common?
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This is the part that can be cleaned, dried, and separated into the toughest and strongest of sewing thread.
    — Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Some pieces were paired with silver boots carrying through the shiny thread that seemed to run through many of fashion week's shows.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Elias Howe, the inventor of the first sewing machine, claimed that the main innovation, placing the thread hole near the tip of the needle, came to him in a dream.
    — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There are still Reddit threads dissecting it and articles in the Irish press about it.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Punch a hole about 1 inch away from top right corner of the card, and insert embroidery thread through it, taking it to the first slit (make sure the thread wraps over the front of the card).
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Chabitnoy follows that thread to the theft of land, children, and identities.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
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thread

2 of 2 verb
  • They had to thread their way through the crowd.
  • She threaded her shoelace through the holes.
  • Waiters threaded through the crowd.
  • Then, open the o-ring hoop and thread the metal through the hole.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 6 July 2022
  • Fluke anglers might thread on a long squid strip to ramp up the flutter and scent.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Take a bunch of pipe cleaners (make sure the ends aren't sharp) and thread them through a kitchen colander.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The brackets are screwed into the wall studs, and the wires are threaded through the brackets and attached to the back of the mirror.
    — Tabitha Britt, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Drill holes in nuts and thread with wire or twine to create napkin rings.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
  • So that’s one of the great things about him, and it’s an incredibly rare thing to be able to thread.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Parents will have to cut the rulers into small pieces, while kids paint the edges and thread the cording.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 18 July 2022
  • Ryan is that golfer who punches out of the trees and back into the fairway; Wentz tries to thread it through the woods to the flagstick.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • From unboxing to threading, the whole process took less than a minute.
    — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Some anglers even thread a tiny piece of kitchen sponge onto the hook and into the body to hold scent even longer.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • On the other end, Anthony Black tried to thread the needle to Makhi Mitchell near the rim, and the ball went out of bounds.
    — Scottie Bordelon, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Now comes the hard work of threading the proverbial needle.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the powers that be were very nervous of the ability to thread that needle.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • It can be used to thread a needle from the past to the present for an end-to-end test of our understanding of the universe.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2022
  • Rotate your left arm down and twist your torso to 'thread' your arm in the space between your torso and the floor.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Aram walked toward a dirt road that climbed and threaded along a row of stone houses with tin and tarp roofs.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Open rice fields spotted in lotus ponds are threaded with lanes just large enough for grains to dry along the sides.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Secure the planets to yarn with the needle and thread up through remaining eight holes.
    — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a telling marker of how red the state has become and how narrow is the needle that a statewide Democrat must thread.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Next, insert the stake into the plant's soil and thread the tube into a water reservoir.
    — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2022
  • The piece would be easy to reorient — rotate the rod, thread it through another hole.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Letunov tried to thread a backhand pass back to Greco but hit the leg of a Charlotte defender.
    — Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Still, some hope that the Fed will be able to thread the proverbial needle and engineer a soft landing.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • Either hook a minnow behind the head or thread it onto the jig hook as if putting on a plastic grub tail.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Our smart design features a phone caddy with a hole to thread a charger cord through.
    — Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Since spring, the actor has rocked a mop threaded through with ribbons of golden blonde worthy of a Y2K boy band.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Bring the needle downward and thread it through the diagonal opposite hole and the shirt.
    — Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023

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