skein

Example Sentences

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A skein of ropes is systematically assembled by the ensemble as scrolls are unrolled to illustrate the science of perspective.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022

The two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021

As media has splintered and hybridized in unimaginable ways, SNL has been spread so thin it’s become practically translucent, a skein of satirical latex stretched over the culture.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2020

Switching locomotives nudged individual boxcars over the skein of temporary tracks to their destinations.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson