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.