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yarn
noun as in fiber for knitting
noun as in story, often long and made-up
Example Sentences
One widely shared video shows a woman spinning yarn on a traditional hand spindle as a Kashmiri folk song plays in the background.
“It can be difficult for us old-timers to see all the changes,” said Gosen, who spins goat fiber into yarn outside her soap shop on Mane Street most weekends.
This is the difference between a yarn like this and all movies “Justice League”-related.
Despite his journalistic family, “I guess I was always more interested in bending yarns than telling traditional truth,” he muses.
Militia groups that promote “FEMA camps” conspiracies will often spin yarns about how “urban gangs” will be recruited to round up “patriots” — their code word for white conservative Christians — into camps.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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