threadlike

IPA: θrˈɛdɫaɪk

Examples of "threadlike" in Sentences

The threadlike streamers between the stars are clearly visible.
So genes had to be carried on chromosomes—the threadlike structures identified by Flemming three decades earlier.
It smelled delicate and earthy, and I imagined a flower on its stem freshly pulled out of the ground, dirt clinging to the threadlike roots.
The scientist turned to a door that led into his inner sanctum and Hardy saw beyond him a great room that was crammed with intricate machines and festooned with cables and gleaming threadlike filaments.
But if the PSA levels rise significantly over time, doctors go to the next step - a biopsy: using a hollow needle device they take a series of threadlike samples from the prostate - as many as two dozen - which pathologists then examine to see if cancer cells are present.