warp and woof

Example Sentences

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Language is the warp and woof of our social fabric.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

Amusingly and effectively, for a vocalist who’s never needed much help with her pitch, many of her bars even use a smattering of Auto-Tune to import a more contemporary warp and woof.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2018

All that was needed was the warp and woof of speaker dresses, rather than the big loudspeakers on stage, which suddenly seemed so 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2018

Perhaps most powerfully, though, women’s absence as storytellers severely limits the narrative warp and woof of the movies themselves, and we need only travel to the local multiplex to see the evidence.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2017

The Lawrence family was pious in the manner of northern Midwestern Lutherans, religion serving as much as the warp and woof of the community fabric as a source of personal succor or theological speculation.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik