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
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
The two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021
By 3 in the morning, they have taken my blood so many times that the veins in my arm have bloomed into a delicate purple skein.
From Slate • May 6, 2021
She bent over to pick up a skein of gold, but couldn’t.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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