yarn

In an idle moment, I did have time to go through my bag of yarn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Much of the stitched masterpiece, which is actually coloured yarn embroidered on linen rather than a woven tapestry, is currently covered up in giant polyester sheeting, to protect it from light damage.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Riw Rakkulchon’s ingenious set, suggestive of both a barn and a cabinet of orchestral wonders, allows “Mexodus” to function simultaneously as a suspenseful dramatic yarn and a jam session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Relief is found in the moments of fellowship and natural splendor that are threaded into the story like strands of bright yarn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

From under tables appeared writing paper, books, knitting yarn, tins of biscuits.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"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

Other knitters won’t be so dedicated, and either turn to lower-quality, less sustainable yarns like acrylic or polyester, or get priced out of the hobby entirely.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025

He’d known him ever since his first days at the chandlery, when he used to drop in between voyages and spin yarns with Sam Smith.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

We were very happy in our party, and when cooking we all sang and yarned, nobody ever seemed tired once we got quit of the motors.

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

Under fire and in action I have watched them, have sat with them, long afternoons by rivers and under trees, and yarned with them on tramps in the blazing sun.

From With Rimington by L. March Phillipps

You see, he so buttered and yarned me; And now—he won't see me!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 14, 1892 by Various

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

He spent hours yarning about Wallace's phenomenal feats in dictation, but he never told me anything concerning E. W.'s dictating a play in 35 hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Some were completely gone with sea-sickness and had tied themselves to the bulwarks, others were lying "yarning" and laughing as if nothing were the matter.

From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer