twine

For now, all there is to see is a staked out area, with posts connected by twine.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

For example: “Cast rubber, with ficus tree surface residues on canvas; glass; twine; and wooden support.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

My father had had the foresight to prepare a box of underwear tied with twine for each of us.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

Use several pieces of kitchen twine to secure the bones back in place against the roast, tying between each set of ribs.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023

Using the twine from his fishnet, he quickly attacked the hair to his bamboo stick.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Religious faith has long twined with the space program.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022

Her wall features one seasonally rotating space that includes a hook, to which she ties twined bundles of winter branches and berries, spring grasses or autumn lavender.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

Lucia married her high-school sweetheart, Renato Conti, in the garden; guests congregated around a small pond under a pair of twined wisteria vines.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

Baskets to carry things, baskets for cooking, baskets for ceremonies, baskets to trap eels, baskets to cradle children: All are twined from the stems of burned hazel.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 17, 2020

Along the borders of the rich lady’s sari were embroidered flurries of blossoms in pale yellows and pinks twined with green leaves.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Mr. Guettel’s twining, urgent vocal music captures the complexity of the situation, encompassing the innocent, sincere mutual recognition of the lovers and Margaret’s sadness and guilt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Carlstrom has written a book that feels incredibly of the moment, twining together anger and glee, hope and despair, alienation and community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

Somewhere behind the house the birds began to wail, twining their voices into a piercing cry until suddenly I saw them both running down the hill into the stutter start of flight.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

In 1991, she made a quipu that she never displayed, practicing the signature “long knot” and twining two colors of yarn together on some pendants.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Miss Rachel flailed relentlessly at a heaving tangle of lily pads, bed sheet, legs and arms, and twining ivy.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee