skein

Example Sentences

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I scooped a few skeins of yarn into a basket, then dropped myself into the reading chair and watched her work for a few minutes.

From Literature

“But nothing happened when I spun! I didn’t catch on fire or get attacked by mice! I just made gold! Fat skeins of gold that could feed the whole village!”

From Literature

The “skein of historical fact, local lore, best-guesswork, and poetry” that comprises his book “depended on its subject’s remaining silent and on the sidelines.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Within minutes of waking, the tangle of problems that had flummoxed Penelope so thoroughly the previous evening had somehow sorted themselves into neat skeins of wool, as it were.

From Literature

Chilton often patrols his ranch, driving with a gun over skeins of dirt roads.

From Los Angeles Times