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

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

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

Switching locomotives nudged individual boxcars over the skein of temporary tracks to their destinations.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson