twine
Example Sentences
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For now, all there is to see is a staked out area, with posts connected by twine.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
The jagged glass shards sewn with twine along the edges are like those vernacular security measures sometimes taken to prevent an invader from climbing over a wall.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024
After a customer picks out a tree, workers remove loose needles and wrap it in a web of twine using a baler machine.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2023
On at least half the current bestsellers — and all the staff picks — handwritten notecards dangle from lengths of red twine.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023
She lashed the reeds down and covered them with bundles of thatching grass, using many overlapping layers tied in place with mupfuti twine.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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