Verb (used with object) : A joyous quality threaded the whole symphony. ,He threaded his way through the crowd. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : They threaded carefully along the narrow pass. From Dictionary.com.
I struck at this, and caught something threadlike. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The lime haze scattered resolved into threadlike snippets. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Company]
Each ear was pierced with two threadlike hoops of hammered gold. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Three days later threadlike wisps of ash still drifted from the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Instead of silk, they wore knitted lace, made of threadlike yarn of lambswool. From Wordnik.com. [Brightly Burning]
In its pure form, saffron is a mass of compressed, threadlike, dark orange strands. From Wordnik.com. [Spices and Herbs -Bandra Bazar Road « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1] Reference
Tiny, colorless, threadlike roundworms that live in the soil and parasitize plant roots. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
Vetiver roots are threadlike strands that form lacy networks throughout a large volume of soil. From Wordnik.com. [4 Questions and Answers] Reference
Her hair was blonder from the sun and she had these burnished, threadlike eyebrows and dusty freckles. From Wordnik.com. [Earthly Possessions]
He could see small threadlike flecks of charcoal inside, and the taste was like turpentine and corn meal. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference
But what may be the flaw in it is it has this little thin wire, a little bit of, you know, almost threadlike. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2006] Reference
The basidia are formed on the end of threadlike branched bodies which grow at the apex, and are called hyphæ. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
Each threadlike fiber actually consists of 30 alternating layers of plastic and glass, each 100 nanometers thick. From Wordnik.com. [Sci-Fi War Uniforms?] Reference
Her pituitary gland, which hangs by a threadlike stalk from the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, has a tumor. From Wordnik.com. [Predator]
CAUSE: By threadlike worms varying in length from one-half to one and one-half inches and of a brownish-white color. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
Back became down, and they shot away from the threadlike trees of Leaf's Choir, seemingly straight up toward the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
Where it is most distinct from cells of other types is that out of the cell body, long, threadlike projections emerge. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The third looked a maze of thin threadlike lines forming a three-dimensional viewpoint, but hollow, without substance. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
Individual flowers, 6-7 mm long, have long white threadlike spreading stamens about 10 mm long (Little and Wadsworth 1964). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
The feelers or antennae are usually threadlike, clubbed, or resemble a feather and extend forward or sidewise from the head. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
They grow in the skin, particularly under the hair, and may send their threadlike branches into some of the subdermal tissues. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
It streamed away like a comet's tail, and then it filled, a silver parachute with four threadlike shrouds pointing at the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
He was stringing the threadlike cords to the rigging, which was the last step before a little touch-up painting here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds of Yesterday]
Mile after mile the storm of flame pushed through the supercharged air, in seconds consuming threadlike trees bigger than towns. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
When waiting for a victim they lengthen and sway their threadlike bodies to and fro, ready to launch out at the first opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They halted almost in midstep, their threadlike tongues flickering in and out, their ragged top crests stiff and upright, pulsing dark red. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak 2250 AD]
The cries from the whaler grew more and more threadlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Honour of the Flag] Reference
There was a threadlike extension of metal from one scrap. From Wordnik.com. [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference
It was an infinitely fine, threadlike projection from the surface of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Sand Doom] Reference
Travel by: May 22 The deal: The threadlike barrier islands off the coast of North. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to French holiday firm debuts 'Eco-Nature' resorts] Reference
In places the threadlike way itself becomes an aqueduct for a rushing overflow of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse] Reference
He saw Lady Galloway, slim and threadlike, with silver hair and a face sensitive and superior. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
A tusk snail's head sends out several threadlike tentacles, each with a sticky knob on the tip. From Wordnik.com. [Starbulletin Headlines] Reference
"Dark, but generally with a fine, threadlike stripe, and ties to match always," Honey said softly. From Wordnik.com. [Skinner's Dress Suit] Reference
He knows that to find the threadlike entrance to the bay you bring the flag-staff over Cart-wright's barn. From Wordnik.com. [By The Sea 1887] Reference
From that day forward he had scrutinized all unfamiliar baits or lures to see if they carried any threadlike attachment. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference
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