skein

Example Sentences

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But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

Her hair hung like a skein of silk, immune to humidity.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2022

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

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

Thus he holds to his chest a skein of words, as though it were the source of his family ties.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez