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

The country also has developed a vibrant civil society, the skein of citizen-run, nongovernmental organizations and associations that infuse a healthy democracy with pluralism, participation and political vigor.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 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 was the latest in a skein of legal maneuvers by the prince’s lawyers to defuse Ms. Giuffre’s case.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022

Then grabbing a skein of the dark gray wool, I dashed through the dormitory door.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom