Example Sentences

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It’s just such a specific kind of needle that you were threading.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

We were threading what I would consider an analog camera through a pipe for people to see.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2021

I've already mentioned how he and Sperry were threading electrodes under their skin, but that's just the beginning.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2011

Obama spoke as if he were threading together the various arguments in the room, weighing their relative strengths, never judging or dismissing a point of view.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2010

In front lay the same steep gigantic slope, sheering upward to a great height, and along this they were threading, like flies upon a wall.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram