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yarn

[yahrn] / jɑrn /
NOUN
fiber for knitting
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Other recent events have focused on “lost arts,” including sewing, knitting and jewelry making, in which Edenwald residents have offered instruction and bins of yarn.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

This is still above all a lovely, soft yarn about crime-solving farm animals, some of them voiced by Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, and the guy who plays Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso.”

From Salon May 17, 2026

"I had a ball of yarn in my belt bag and cast on my first stitch as soon as I crossed the starting line," he said.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

Former mill worker Linda McTigue worked in the building when she was 17 years old and worked in a department that made embroidery silk yarn.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2026

Over the past few days, I’d been growing this small bit of hope, letting it build up little by little like yarn wrapped from a skein.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

We go on a short hike while Yarvin, who looks like an ageing punk rocker, speaks in circuitous, long-winded yarns that reference esoteric texts and periods of history to prove his points.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

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

From Salon Mar. 27, 2026

Kelbourne Woolens, for one, delayed the release of two new yarns Kelley had hoped to launch this year because of the trade uncertainty.

From Barron's Dec. 24, 2025

Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2025

Balthilda had me hold her yarns so they wouldn’t tangle as she knit, and sometimes I would arrange Hadel’s yarns according to their shades.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

I saw you at Oakland one day when a race was run, and I’ve heard certain qualities of yours yarned about at mess tables in the East.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

Gibbons, who seemed to be a jack-of-all-trades, cooked us some bacon and an omelette, and as he ate Archie yarned.

From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John

We yarned away about ourselves and our experiences, then got our cooker under way to have breakfast and to await the arrival of Captain Scott and the seven lustier ponies.

From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

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

Stewart did his best not to brood, and Fonda helped buoy him after the day's filming by yarning, Harley-like, about the years they have spent together.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether yarning with a novice or pro, avoid the skippers with the worst sea stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

The captain and the guests went below to open another jar, while the mate and cooper roused up the hands who were lying about yarning and smoking, and told them to make sail.

From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf




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