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Example sentences for "thready"

Lexicographically close words:
threadbare; threaded; threading; threadlike; threads; threat; threaten; threatened; threatenest; threateneth
  1. The pulse, which at first was not much affected, will become quick and hard, or small and thready when the spasm affects the muscles of the heart.

  2. Pulse weak and thready and increased in frequency.

  3. Hope danced about the room, humming her little thready violin note.

  4. He had shooting pains and tingling of the limbs, dimness of vision, and quick, thready pulse.

  5. The thready mass was the hair of the head--long and straggling, showing that the head was a woman's.

  6. He said, 'It must be a thready silk fringe.

  7. The root is long, small and thready at the end.

  8. The roots are many white thready strings: the stalks perish, but the roots with some leaves thereon, abide all the Winter.

  9. The root is small and thready spreading much to the ground, but die every year.

  10. Should the end of the tap root project below the end of the cylinder, the thready end should be pinched off with the thumb nail.

  11. The thready end of the tap root is cut off and the stump is ready to plant.

  12. The warm night-wind, full of elusive odors, brushed her face like thready cobwebs, that broke at her touch, only to caress her anew.

  13. The gigantic squatter removed his pipe from his mouth and smoothed the thready white beard, straggling over his chin.


    14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thready" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    capillary; fibrous; filamentary; funicular; hairlike; hairy; ropy; silky; stringy; threadlike; wiry