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
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
To guide the vines, use twine — or, better still, rubber-coated electrical wire — stringing it between eye hooks positioned around the windows.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
The collar buttons, the birds’ bones, the ball of twine.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
