skein

Example Sentences

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It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023

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

It’s dry, with apricot and pear flavors and a skein of minerality that carries the fruit through to a long, satisfying finish.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021

A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

To see the two of them together was a regular jolt: the young man’s head of yellow hair long as a dog’s tail next to her skein of black wool.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison