Example Sentences

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Toossi, who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama for this play, has threaded an impossible needle: making a play that is deeply rooted in politics feel anything but.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

That story line, so full of possibilities, has threaded through fictional works of all kinds for centuries.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

Abrams has threaded the needle as gracefully as the X-Wing dodging obstacles on the surface of the second Death Star in the trailer for Return of the Jedi.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2019

The biggest surprise from the finale was Ford’s secret desire to free his creations, which made him seem less like the evil lunatic this series has threaded since the pilot.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2016

Marie-Laure crosses six evenly spaced friction strips on the kitchen tiles to reach the table; she follows a strand of twine he has threaded from the table to the toilet.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr