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Example sentences for "single thread"

  • This lavish use of camel's hair, the broad encircling edging, the cotton warp, and a single thread of coarse weft passing once between two rows of knots, distinguish them from all other rugs.

  • A single thread of small diameter crosses only once between every two rows of knots, so that the white spots of transverse warp exposed at back have a quincunx appearance.

  • If it is wool, it generally crosses twice; if of cotton, two threads are generally placed side by side and cross together once as a single thread.

  • To each of these rings a weight is suspended by a single thread, for the purpose of giving tension to the endless cord.

  • The perfect cocoons have their fibres unravelled in continuous lengths, a certain number of these being run together to form a single thread of commerce.

  • Very successful effects are produced by folding a thread of one shade with a single thread of another, and when these are brushed in finishing they give melanged effects which are most attractive and pleasing.

  • To obtain the same lead with a single thread, the pitch would have to be double, thus giving a much coarser thread, which would weaken the screw, unless its diameter were increased.

  • A double thread is different from a single thread in that it has two grooves, starting diametrically opposite, whereas a triple thread has three grooves cut as shown at F.

  • Malta embroidery is mostly done on coarse coloured linen fabrics or on single thread canvas.

  • In the case of a single thread, you count one double knot per square, in that of a double one, 4 double knots, two in the first and two in the second row.

  • Single thread; loop of needle thread drawn up over the edge and locked by needle at its next descent.

  • The writer of the article on sewing machines states that John Knowles invented and constructed a sewing machine, which used a single thread and a two-pointed needle with the eye in the middle to form the backstitch.

  • It is not like a rope, composed of separate strands; for all the minute threads fuse together into a single thread.

  • Ordinarily the tips of the spinnerets are held close together so that they form a single thread, but by spreading them apart many threads can be spun at once, thus forming a ribbon.

  • Ordinarily the tips of the spinnerets are brought close together, so that all of the minute threads that emerge from the numerous spinning tubes unite to form a single thread.

  • Knit goods are made by the interlooping of a single thread, by hand or on circular knitting machines and lace by an analogous process, using several systems of threads.

  • The two chief types of machines are the lock stitch, using double thread, and the chain or loop stitch, using a single thread.

  • Four or five cocoons are wound together, the sticky fibers clinging to each other as they pass through the various guides and are wound as a single thread on the reels.

  • In working with double silk or wool, it is better not to double back a single thread, but to pass two separate threads through the eye of the needle.

  • The rings may be attached by a single thread.

  • This last-named stitch in its earliest form is worked over a single thread, and produces a close and solid effect when closely massed, or, as may be seen in many sampler maps, very fine lines when worked in single rows.

  • One large French map of Europe in my collection has 414 names worked on it in fine cross-stitch, many of them being worked on a single thread of material, which is a fine muslin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single thread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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