yarn

The movie is an engaging adventure yarn about two combat veterans, one with two legs and the other with three.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Lyubov thinks back to when she used to ride her bike across the border into Ukraine to shop for sausages, yarn and ice cream.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

"The yarn selection and machine parameter choices allowed us to basically select a fabric that is going to be as snappy as we can possibly get," Mahadevan said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

This is an uncomplicated yarn about a man prying open his heart and nudging other hard nuts to do the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Just under my feet was something of Cat’s, a small piece of yarn she had worn in her hair.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The team selected highly elastic yarns and used a knitting method called plating, which places different yarns on opposite faces of the textile.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

"And that's not just writers who continually return to the Greeks and Romans -- the history, the myths, the characters, the events -- that's also readers. These are ripping good yarns."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Coppola’s use of archival footage brings Jacobs’ yarns to life.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Works such as “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” still read today, exemplify the Scottish author’s gift for yarns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

On a thick wooden table by the window, piles of colored yarns lay ready for sorting.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.

From Time Magazine Archive

As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.

From Time Magazine Archive

So they sat down, and yarned about old times, though Bill told me that Davy seemed to remember people after everybody else had forgotten them, which was confusing.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

An awning was always kept spread over the fore part of the ship, and it was under this that the crew smoked and yarned in the evenings.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables

He was a storehouse of tales of political intrigue, and yarned till near midnight on the deck as we slid through the phosphorescent sea.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019

The present collection of rural yarning is a useful reminder that Caldwell, 57, is one of the best short-story tellers in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet Merlyn's knack for livery yarning and his ability for introspection give the book its special quality: a fat, comercial novel with a lean, serious writer signaling wildly to get out.

From Time Magazine Archive

But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning.

From Time Magazine Archive

After tea we sat round the fire yarning, I giving some of my experiences and telling them of foreign countries I had visited.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde