How to Use thread in a Sentence

thread

1 of 2 noun

• A thread was hanging from the hem of her coat.
• The hooks on her legs catch on the threads of a sock.
  — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
• Our common thread is to be a band.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2026
• The common thread is not birth year.
  — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• The common thread is not sports.
  — Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• All of this is captured in thread.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• But a common thread runs through the deals.
  — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
• The common thread isn’t the type of loss.
  — Tiffany Aliche, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
• The common thread across all of these tricks?
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
• As for the common thread, though?
  — Akili King, Essence, 19 Sep. 2025
• So that’s the common thread here.
  — NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
• That’s a big thread throughout the book.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
• There’s a common thread among all these artists.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
• Right now, too many of those threads are fraying.
  — Cat Ward, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• There’s a big thread that’s going through it.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
• Sarah writes in the meeting’s chat thread.
  — Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
• That thread is fragile, though.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 June 2026
• The strokes are steady, thin, almost like threads.
  — Dada Jovanovic, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
• One of her colleagues backed her up on the same email thread.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• The next text in the thread was, like, nine months later.
  — Lucy Boyle, Curbed, 26 June 2026
• Over the years, more women have been added to their email thread.
  — Ella Lee, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2023
• Are there threads and themes that all your records have in common?
  — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
• Pitch the idea, start the thread, or reach out to someone smart.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
• Schmidt stacked at least two — maybe more — threads of that part to get a chunky sound.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
• There are a lot of idea threads that fray off and don’t go anywhere.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
• Think of them as Thoreau with thread counts.
  — The Editors, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
• Andrew, what was your thread for Hank?
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
• Sateen weaves can reach up to a 1,000 thread count.
  — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
• But Abbott had some changes, the email thread shows.
  — David Hilzenrath, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
• But Abbott had some changes, the email thread shows.
  — David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026

thread

2 of 2 verb

• They had to thread their way through the crowd.
• She threaded her shoelace through the holes.
• Waiters threaded through the crowd.
• Our job is to thread the needle.
  — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
• Ethan just can thread that needle.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
• It was threaded through the whole film.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
• But that doesn’t mean this won’t be a tough needle to thread.
  — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• Then, open the o-ring hoop and thread the metal through the hole.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 6 July 2022
• Reeves has his hair cropped short, his black beard threaded with gray.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 29 May 2026
• Drill small holes in the tops of these mushroom forms to thread twine through.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2025
• Adelman took over the job with that needle to thread.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
• The stunt here is to thread the line through the hook eye and tie it well down the hook shank.
  — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
• Somehow thread the needle and find the sweet spot?
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• Just how the court will thread that needle remains to be seen.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 9 June 2026
• Drill holes in nuts and thread with wire or twine to create napkin rings.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• Good luck trying to thread that needle.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
• His strength is threading pucks to teammates.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• This amounts to threading the needle, though.
  — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• One person threads the two scandals.
  — Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
• Fluke anglers might thread on a long squid strip to ramp up the flutter and scent.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Joy threads through every jazz refrain.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
• Cut out the shape, add a small hole, and thread with string or an ornament hook to hang.
  — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Dec. 2025
• Humor threaded through the evening.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
• That purpose is threaded through every step of the process.
  — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2026
• From unboxing to threading, the whole process took less than a minute.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
• But their comedy isn’t sharp enough to thread that tricky needle.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
• Ballerino found a way to thread that needle.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
• Take a bunch of pipe cleaners (make sure the ends aren't sharp) and thread them through a kitchen colander.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
• Parents will have to cut the rulers into small pieces, while kids paint the edges and thread the cording.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 18 July 2022
• Our smart design features a phone caddy with a hole to thread a charger cord through.
  — Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023