weft

Example Sentences

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Cody was weaned on weaving, tapping weft yarns for her nine-foot-tall textiles with the same wood comb she started out with at age 5.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

The very warp and weft of language are clichés, worn metaphors, secondhand phrases copied so often that their lack of originality, of idiosyncrasy, is what allows them to have communicative power.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

Holding a heddle rod to separate the warp threads, she draws the continuous horizontal weft thread in and out of one or more warp threads.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Was she careless when she replaced the shuttle in the right-hand box or had there been a knot in the weft thread?

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson