yarn

Mr. Guimarães lightens the darkening mood with an inventive trick involving a volunteer’s wedding ring, which is invisibly transported across the stage with the help of a ball of yarn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In this work, however, the researchers demonstrated that weft knitting, the same industrial method commonly used to produce hats and gloves, can create complex curved structures using yarn alone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

This is an uncomplicated yarn about a man prying open his heart and nudging other hard nuts to do the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

She held the shawl up to her mouth and bit off about a two-inch length of the yarn.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The researchers next added thin conductive yarns to demonstrate how the technology could be used in practical devices.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

"And that's not just writers who continually return to the Greeks and Romans -- the history, the myths, the characters, the events -- that's also readers. These are ripping good yarns."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Coppola’s use of archival footage brings Jacobs’ yarns to life.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Works such as “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” still read today, exemplify the Scottish author’s gift for yarns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

I doused part of the hall and then the craft room, feeling a wave of sorrow for the ruin of Gran’s beautiful cotton prints and colorful yarns.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.

From Time Magazine Archive

As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus they yarned on, and at last Clay took his departure, for it was late.

From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

While Dick and I yarned and talked over Old times that had gone like the sun, The wail of the desolate plover Came up from the swamps in the run.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

He was a storehouse of tales of political intrigue, and yarned till near midnight on the deck as we slid through the phosphorescent sea.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019

None surpasses the Sage of Burwash at yarning in dialects of all sorts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet Merlyn's knack for livery yarning and his ability for introspection give the book its special quality: a fat, comercial novel with a lean, serious writer signaling wildly to get out.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Thomas was yarning and clowning, he kept sternly to his poet's vocation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hundred-odd men of the pioneer party, relaxing after the day-long march over the mountains, were smoking, yarning, or playing cards around the dozen or more camp-fires.

From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde