purl
Example Sentences
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In knitting, the knit and the purl stitch are the same things.
From Literature
That’s harmless if you’re a knitting hobbyist who might overestimate how many fellow citizens know the difference between a knit and a purl stitch.
The creek purls cold and fast through gigantic trees, their buttressed trunks shaggy with age, and their tops snaggletoothed from centuries of storms.
From Seattle Times
The only sounds are our own voices, the crackle of the fire, the purl of the river, the dull drone of the barges, and the constant chorus of bullfrogs, birds, bugs and coyotes.
From Los Angeles Times
In the pull and twitch of particle affinities—knitting and purling the fabric of the universe— something has not been accounted for that prolongs the Muon’s mortal wobble.
From Scientific American
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