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Example sentences for: yarn

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If not, you still get a good yarn" (Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan, Slate ). (Click here for an excerpt.)
The next step in developing a U.S.-based industry was to bring the machine that took yarn and transformed it into finished cloth—the power loom—across the Atlantic.
And while their feud may not have defined a decade, as Jeff Shesol claims in this wonderfully entertaining, original, and exceptionally researched book, it certainly makes for a hell of a gripping yarn.
Bhaktapur expanded over the centuries from a nucleus around the Tachupal Tole, reached by a walk from the Nyatapola Temple through narrow streets full of unfamiliar merchandise: the lengths of red yarn are sold to be plaited in women’s hair; the gray cannonballs are homemade soap, the conical yellowish cigarettes are bidi, the cheapest tobacco, and can be bought singly.
I think Wolfe is right about the potential of this kind of novel, one that takes us through unexplored precincts of our own society while spinning a good yarn.