twine

It will be beautiful, made by hand, wrapped in brown paper tied with twine.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

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

Then he wound a length of wovengrass twine round his forehead to keep his hair out of his eyes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The twined cities of Los Angeles that Scully and Jarrín have made with their voices may seem like different cities, but their borders are unguarded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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

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

Basquiat and Rammellzee represent the show’s twin poles and its twined sources of energy.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2020

All the way to the dining room she had walked precisely, placing her feet in the very center of the cabbage roses that twined through the pattern of the carpet.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Through the telescope I beheld banded Jupiter holding court with three of its glittering moons and, 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, mists of interstellar gas twining through the Tarantula Nebula.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Ser Loras Tyrell was slender as a reed, dressed in a suit of fabulous silver armor polished to a blinding sheen and filigreed with twining black vines and tiny blue forget-me-nots.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin