skein

Example Sentences

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It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Her hair hung like a skein of silk, immune to humidity.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2022

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

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

She bent over to pick up a skein of gold, but couldn’t.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff