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
For example: “Cast rubber, with ficus tree surface residues on canvas; glass; twine; and wooden support.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024
My father had had the foresight to prepare a box of underwear tied with twine for each of us.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
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
All my cousins would gather in the courtyard between my house and Geoffrey’s house to kick the soccer ball—made from plastic shopping bags we called jumbos, which we then bound in twine.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
Vocabulary lists containing twine
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