What is "threadlike"

Usage examples of "threadlike".

She walked to the door and stood only inches from it, looking at the threadlike, cracked lines in the paint on the cypress boards, the exposed, square nailheads that were darkened with rust, a thimbleful of cobweb stuck behind a hinge.

Broken veins high on each cheekbone gave the man the appearance of good health, but underneath the threadlike capillaries the skin was sallow and open-pored.

The air-circulation inlets had fouled with the threadlike lichenoids, nearly choking off a whole row of lots.

The Consul looked up at their line of travel, the massive cable dwindling to threadlike thinness far ahead and then to nothing at all.

There grew paper reeds, whose tall, graceful dark green stems were topped by mop heads of pendulous threadlike foliage.

Her pituitary gland, which hangs by a threadlike stalk from the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, has a tumor.

The corollas are pale reddish purple or fleshcoloured, bell-shaped in the male flowers, and containing abundant nectar, but only threadlike in the female flowers, which contain no nectar, and are succeeded by the white feathery pappus, which crowns the seeds.

I see that the scarlike line is starting to separate, like long, threadlike lips.

One little hole, one tiny, threadlike crack as a starting point, and the pressure hull would rip and tear and flatten like a toy under a steam hammer.