yarn

Example Sentences

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Shadows spooled from the breaking surf, and it reminded Danny of the basket of yarn that Mrs. Garner kept in the living room out of reach from the twins.

From Literature

I stayed home and I learned and I had more fun than a kitten with twenty balls of yarn and three pretend mice.

From Literature

Placing Tiamat's skins one on top of the other, he rolled them up, then tied the crinkly red bundle with a strand of yarn he had found in his mother's knitting bag.

From Literature

Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.

From BBC

Brown partnered with Slater, who was as good as his word, improving on the Arkwright model and turning out yarn that his old master in Derbyshire—to whom Slater sent a sample—labeled excellent.

From Barron's