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

Flower People corrals plants by placing parallel rows of 5-foot-tall posts every 10 feet along a row and wrapping the perimeter with sturdy baling twine.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

This year, Mr. Wyckoff paid $1,380 for 12 boxes of twine.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 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