skein

Example Sentences

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The country also has developed a vibrant civil society, the skein of citizen-run, nongovernmental organizations and associations that infuse a healthy democracy with pluralism, participation and political vigor.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023

A skein of ropes is systematically assembled by the ensemble as scrolls are unrolled to illustrate the science of perspective.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 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

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

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

Over the past few days, I’d been growing this small bit of hope, letting it build up little by little like yarn wrapped from a skein.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry