skein

Example Sentences

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The skein in June left the Angels four games under .500 and 3.5 games out of the final wild-card spot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2023

Her hair hung like a skein of silk, immune to humidity.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2022

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022

As media has splintered and hybridized in unimaginable ways, SNL has been spread so thin it’s become practically translucent, a skein of satirical latex stretched over the culture.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2020

Opal watched, transfixed for a while, and then fell asleep on the floor, a skein of gold clutched in her hands.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff