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Example sentences for "threaded"

Lexicographically close words:
thrawn; thray; thre; thread; threadbare; threading; threadlike; threads; thready; threat
  1. Venice, indeed, was bathed in music, the entire life was threaded with it.

  2. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I will bring out the three needles threaded with the three strands of cotton.

  3. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I will proceed to swallow these three needles and these three strands of cotton and shortly to bring out each needle threaded with a strand of cotton.

  4. LOW WATER It was a calm, clear evening in late summer as the Elizabeth Ann, of Pembray, scorning the expensive aid of a tug, threaded her way down the London river under canvas.

  5. Soon after entering the fields, the path dives through a little dell threaded by the Birkin (an affluent of the Bollin), then goes on through lanes which in May are decked plenteously with primroses.

  6. The great ridges of Kinder Scout, Glossop, and Greenfield are immensely more ancient than any of the exposed or superficial parts of the country threaded by the Mersey at Cheadle, and by the Irwell below Prestwich.

  7. Holes are drilled through both sticks and cones, which are threaded on wires in the form of a curved mat, the ends of which are brought together and the wires twisted.

  8. I threaded a dozen needles on a spool of thread for Grandmother, before I went to school, so that she could slip them along and use them as she needed them.

  9. She pinched my ear until it was numb and then pulled a needle through, threaded with silk.

  10. They were threaded over spools contained in a box at the rear end of the lamphouse, passing over the lamphouse to the head of the machine; thence down through the head, past the projection aperture and back to the spools.

  11. On the base of the upper half a hard wood screw is inserted and at the top of the butt a threaded hole is bored.

  12. As silently, therefore, as shadows, the pioneers, with their guns at a trail, threaded their way through the forest and dense canebrakes.

  13. Guided by the foresters of the district, his men slowly threaded the matted woods, and by 1st October had seized Augustovo.

  14. It was a very wonderful garden, a jungle of exotic plants and shrubs threaded by narrow walks that led to secluded nooks and unsuspected pleasaunces, and lighted by low-swung festoons of dim lamps, many-coloured.

  15. Soft footsteps sounded in the gallery and one of her handmaidens threaded the shrubbery to her side.

  16. The long High-street which he threaded now began to change its bustling character, and slide, as it were gradually, into the high road of a suburb.

  17. The maze threaded by the 500 asteroids contrasts singularly with the harmoniously ordered and rhythmically separated orbits of the larger planets.

  18. Aunt Hester rose and threaded her way out of the room, and Francie said rather maliciously: "The Boers are a hard nut to crack, Uncle James.

  19. She threaded two more turnings, and from the last corner he saw her enter her block of flats.

  20. She looked round at them out of the corner of those lustrous, mild, cynical eyes, and from her grey lips a little dribble of saliva threaded its way towards the straw.

  21. The steam inlet is E; the threaded exterior is for attaching the steam-pipe from the boiler.

  22. The other gland is threaded to screw direct into the cylinder cover, which is tapped to receive it.

  23. Six small rings are sewn on the inside of each curtain in a diagonal direction to the top corner, and the cords are threaded through these rings.

  24. The cab stopped, and they got out, and threaded their way among the crowd to the barriers.

  25. When "Wandsworth Common" was cried, he glanced at the dimly-lighted station while in fancy he threaded his way to the shabby villa that had been her home.

  26. The cylinder was then placed on the mandrel, fastened with a pin, and threaded on both ends.

  27. Place the left hand on the inside of the leaves where they are folded and start a blunt needle, threaded double, through the notch on the left side of the string No.

  28. A rod that will fit the brass tube, not too tightly, but which will not wobble loose, is threaded and turned into the upper end of the support.

  29. Flanges were next made from couplings discarded from an old horsepower tumbling rod, to fit on the threaded ends of the cylinder casting.

  30. The end of the spindle should be threaded to receive a chuck.

  31. The upper one should be tapped with a machine tap for the spindle which is threaded to fit it.

  32. Place a strap nut, threaded to fit the crank, on the head-end of the crank block, and a plain nut to act as a bearing, on the crank end.

  33. The two wires may now be threaded down the copper tube into the base, and pulled tight, the terminals firmly fixed into the tubes; if too small, some glue will secure them.

  34. Now take off the board and countersink on the back a place for the head of a coarse threaded screw.

  35. But we, deep in the deep valley, threaded our swift way among the islands in a soft twilight which gently ebbed to night.

  36. The fact that a letter was pulled out of the form seems to show that the type composing the line could not have been threaded together, as set forth by Ottley in his theory of clay molds for casting type.

  37. Some may have threaded their type together in lines and others may have simply locked them up in the form face downward in the composing stone to overcome any irregularities caused by crude methods of casting.

  38. The peasant seemed well acquainted with the city; for without once deviating from his course, he quickly threaded its intricate streets.

  39. They had threaded their course through the many islets at the foot of the lake, and were speeding down the headwaters of the Richelieu.

  40. He had gathered them at Oswego in July, and now in the second week of August had crossed the lake to its outlet, threaded the channels of the Thousand Islands, and was bearing down on the broad river towards Fort Amitie.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threaded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.