yarn

In an idle moment, I did have time to go through my bag of yarn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Much of the stitched masterpiece, which is actually coloured yarn embroidered on linen rather than a woven tapestry, is currently covered up in giant polyester sheeting, to protect it from light damage.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Riw Rakkulchon’s ingenious set, suggestive of both a barn and a cabinet of orchestral wonders, allows “Mexodus” to function simultaneously as a suspenseful dramatic yarn and a jam session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

A solid, by-the-numbers, character-driven yarn, “Detour” ends on a cliffhanger because it’s the start of a series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Mary looked up quickly from the hank of yarn she was winding into a ball.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

"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

Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025

I think Mama had let him tell so many big yarns about his catching live game that he’d begun to believe them himself.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

He sang and he yarned time about—the songs for the children, the yarns for us.

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

He lay back in his rubbed leather armchair and yarned for twenty minutes.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

While Dick and I yarned and talked over Old times that had gone like the sun, The wail of the desolate plover Came up from the swamps in the run.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

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

Whether yarning with a novice or pro, avoid the skippers with the worst sea stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some parts it is just about the best baseball yarning since the late great Ring Lardner put the cover on his typewriter.

From Time Magazine Archive

None surpasses the Sage of Burwash at yarning in dialects of all sorts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some were completely gone with sea-sickness and had tied themselves to the bulwarks, others were lying "yarning" and laughing as if nothing were the matter.

From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer