Example sentences for: yarn

How can you use “yarn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • If not, you still get a good yarn" (Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan, Slate ). (Click here for an excerpt.)

  • Yarn was in short supply in the new country and much in demand in households that did hand weaving as well as in workplaces with looms that produced sheeting, shirting, and stockings for commerce.

  • Primary textile manufacturing includes both the spinning of raw cotton and other fibers into yarn and the weaving of yarn into “greige goods,” or unfinished cloth.

  • By 1793, the firm of Almy, Brown and Slater was operating a seventy-two-spindle mill, producing high-quality yarn.


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