skein
Example Sentences
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The skein in June left the Angels four games under .500 and 3.5 games out of the final wild-card spot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 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
It’s dry, with apricot and pear flavors and a skein of minerality that carries the fruit through to a long, satisfying finish.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
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
To see the two of them together was a regular jolt: the young man’s head of yellow hair long as a dog’s tail next to her skein of black wool.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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