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Examples of yarn in a Sentence
Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
The shirt itself is made from a blend of recycled materials and responsibly sourced cotton yarn.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
Yarn Wall Hanging Use a gold macramé hoop, chunky yarn and oatmeal yarn to DIY a gorgeous wall hanging that can be displayed long after fall ends.
—Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
Embroider the beak between the eyes using yarn and a tapestry needle.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
Sewing equipment such as knitting needles, patterns, pins, scissors, sewing machines, sewing needles, tape measures, thimbles, buttons, fabric, lace, thread, yarn and zippers.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
Punch a hole in the upper left corner of each card and tie them together with a short piece of yarn.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
The silhouettes are distended and reveal the skin beneath these big cobwebs of yarn.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
One of the main points of that yarn is to persuade humans not to do exactly what Lee did in his comments.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
Eventually, The Kelly Clarkson Show host gave up on her work, balling the needles and yarn together to signify she was done with both the piece and the video.
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2023
Begin by chaining two loops, then yarn over.
—Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
The range: large-scale new media productions, to psychedelic sculptures, to yarn.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 20 Feb. 2023
The book’s title refers less to yarn than to Ms. Orenstein’s sense during the pandemic that her life is, in a word, unraveling.
—Barbara Spindel, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
Gina Owen is a member of the Dallas Yarn Bombers group, an organization that crafts yarn installations around the city.
—Dallas News, 29 June 2022
Yarn over, insert hook, yarn over and pull through three times in the same space to create your bobble.
—Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
As far as scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Library (JPL) know, there are not yet yarn factories on Mars.
—Fox News, 21 July 2022
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Word History
Noun
Middle English yerne, yarne "spun fiber," going back to Old English gearn, going back to Germanic *garna- (whence also Middle Dutch gaern, garen "spun fiber," Old High German & Old Norse garn), masculine noun probably from the same base as feminine *garnō "intestine" (whence Old Norse gǫrn, plural garnar "guts") and *garnja- (in Old English micgern, midirne "fat around the entrails of an animal," Old Saxon midgarni, Old High German mittigarni, with *midja- mid entry 1), going back to Indo-European *ǵhorH-n- (whence also Lithuanian žarnà "intestine" and Greek khordḗ "catgut, string of a musical instrument, sausage," in plural "guts, tripe," if altered from *khornḗ), suffixed o-grade derivative of *ǵhr̥H- "gut, cord made from animal intestines," whence Latin haru- "intestines" (in haruspex haruspex), Sanskrit híraḥ "band, strip," hirā́ "vein"
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1812, in the meaning defined above
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“Yarn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yarn. Accessed 28 Sep. 2023.
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