But it is a thin thread on which to hang my hope.
The thin thread is held by the monster's left hand.
You're going to get him soon, because he's hanging by a thin thread and is just about ready to fall at your feet.
Ten light years distance from Earth is a long thin thread.
It was a thin thread, and she worried about its breaking.
There was a thin thread of light beneath the music room door.
It would not be well received and he knew that his life still hung by a thin thread.
They have tried to hold together the city's thin threads of social order, not always with success.
A thin blue thread of smoke rose above the trees far below.
At last they came to the thin thread of a small stream.