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

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

The legal debate is just one skein in the tangle of moral, political and economic concerns that the potential seizure of Russia’s reserves poses.

From New York Times

Thick skeins of wires hooked up to generators form a canopy over the neighborhood.

From Seattle Times

On the fourth floor, all the sculpture are bronze, including two enormous baskets, one occupied by a giant snake, the other filled with skeins of hair, some of them tinted red, as if bloodied.

From New York Times