Footsteps in the street beyond cut the fragile strand.

His voice boomed back from the bare vault of the ceiling, shaking crawlers from their webs as the sound shattered the fragile strands.

The pull of the fragile strand that connected her to her body lessened.

The fragile strand of trust that had begun to grow in Vienna had snapped under the strain of separation and had been blown into the wind like cobwebs.

Sailing on evanescent wings of mind through the energy/matter currents of space, down one fragile strand of the web and up another.

Scientists have extracted fragile strands of DNA, the genetic code of life, from a plant that thrived millions of years before the dawn of man.

More crawlers were shaken from their webs as the sound of his voice shattered fragile strands.

To her surprise she touched a fragile strand, a tangle of thread tossed over the surface of the massed databases.

It is a frustrating movement, however, held together at points by bare, fragile strands of phrase that sound more like temporary bridges than completed structures.

A fanout kit is a set of empty jackets designed to protect fragile tight-buffered strands of fiber from a cable.