skein
Example Sentences
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But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 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
A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021
By 3 in the morning, they have taken my blood so many times that the veins in my arm have bloomed into a delicate purple skein.
From Slate • May 6, 2021
“Yes, yes. You are mistaken. I put a new skein beside you only an hour ago. You have mislaid the thread,” he insisted.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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