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How to use thread in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Thread means a cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework. Example: “I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.”

Examples of thread by meaning

nounA cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands...

  • Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234

nounAny of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).

  • the threads of a spiderweb
  • The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

nounA slender stream of water.

  • a thread of water

nounA line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.

  • I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.

nounA continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.

  • All of these essays have a common thread.

nounA precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.

  • a life hanging by a thread

verbTo make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).

  • to thread through narrow passages
  • I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
  • The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266

verbTo cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.

  • He threaded his way through legal entanglements.

More sentences with thread

  • The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.From the entry fire
  • There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.From the entry salt
  • Wind the bobbin, place it in the machine, and raise the thread.From the entry bobbin
  • Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.From the entry job
  • The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.From the entry fine
  • When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.From the entry block
  • The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.From the entry lock out
  • The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.From the entry dunk
  • Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.From the entry strip
  • A nonvolatile variable may misbehave if accessed from multiple threads at once.From the entry nonvolatile
  • Vote now, as this thread is sure to make its way into squirrelable territory before long!From the entry squirrelable
  • The thread increments the semaphore to prevent other threads from entering the critical section at the same time.From the entry semaphore
  • The cloak was shot through with silver threads.From the entry shot
  • She bought cotton thread to use to make string.From the entry string
  • The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.From the entry batch
  • The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.From the entry needle
  • We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve’s thread.From the entry tap
  • Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.From the entry tap
  • The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.From the entry root
  • The antivirus program runs on a background thread.From the entry background
  • The tool and die department stocks various hardware assortments, such as cap screws in most thread sizes and assorted lengths.From the entry assortment
  • A child of the Great Depression, Grandma would never throw away a dishtowel until it had more holes than thread.From the entry dishtowel
  • An internal screw thread is cut with a "tap", while external screw threads are cut with a "die".From the entry screw thread
  • A set of two tommy bars is the standard tooling for the spindle nose threads of some minilathes and minimills.From the entry tommy bar
  • It makes more sense to crosspost than to multipost: that way, replies will all appear together in a single thread.From the entry multipost
  • What is the common thread in these three stories?From the entry common thread
  • They spin the cotton into thread.From the entry spin
  • The installers attempted to thread the fish tape through the conduit, but were unable to reach around the tight bend in the tube.From the entry fish tape
  • As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.From the entry nubbin

Meaning of thread

  1. noun A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
  2. noun A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
  3. noun Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).

Full definition of thread

Questions about thread in a sentence

How do you use thread in a sentence?
Thread is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.”
What is a short sentence with thread?
“a thread of water”
What does thread mean?
Thread means a cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thread (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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