Example sentences for: yarn

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

  • a witty, fast-moving yarn."

  • If not, you still get a good yarn.

  • The thirteen yarn colors of the magnificent rug symbolize the original thirteen colonies of this nation.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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