How to Use weft in a Sentence

weft

noun

• Wool can be used in both warp and weft yarn.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Dec. 2025
• The warp and weft of the fabric's tight weave give it a two-tone effect.
  — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• The buck is passed around as liberally as hair wefts in the show’s makeover episodes.
  — Hunter Lacey, Allure, 16 Feb. 2026
• The threads that go up and down on the loom are called the warp, and those that go from left to right are called the weft.
  — ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Cut too-long hems with scissors, then pull out some of the weft yarns (the white fringe) for effect.
  — Lauren Chan, Glamour, 20 July 2017
• This is accomplished when the weft thread goes over a warp thread and then under two warp threads.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024
• The even-weave fabric has the same distance between the warp and weft (over and under) threads.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Even my in-denial parents could only pretend not to smell the smoke that clung to the weft of my sweater.
  — Nicole Walker, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Lombardo has such a fine eye for the weft and warp of a family’s fabric.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
• Estes deftly marries the warp of sharp outlines to the weft of the wobbly mirage.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Moving through headlines at three miles an hour reveals this intimate warp and weft.
  — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• The best way to think about truth is not in the abstract but in media res, as it is found in the warp and weft of human life.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• This helps the weft yarns lay flat, giving fabrics that are distressed and destroyed a cleaner look.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Apr. 2025
• Best to remain narcotized and between the Zen warp and weft of high thread-count sheets.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• Melanj Hair's clip-in and weft hair extensions range from tightly coiled to silk-press straightened.
  — Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 15 Mar. 2023
• But, far more pervasively, the races, large and small, form the weft that ties my life together through the years.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2020
• The recycled cotton can be used in both warp and weft for rigid fabrications.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 Dec. 2024
• The Pakistani mill showed new sulfur dyes like aged merlot and graphite green, and fabrics with brown and blue wefts.
  — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 22 Apr. 2026
• The systematic warp and weft of the loom, after all, was the template for the first computer.
  — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Denim with an indigo yarn warp and black yarn and gold Lurex yarn in weft results in a subtle shimmer.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Aug. 2024
• Tape-ins can be damaging to your hair and the breakage will be far worse if the wefts are not installed by a professional.
  — Tayler Adigun, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
• They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.
  — Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
• The weft method of installation involves using microbeads to attach tracks of hair to the client's head.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 30 Dec. 2021
• Thread count is determined by the number of threads lengthwise (called the warp) and widthwise (the weft) in a one-inch square of fabric.
  — Kelley Carter, ELLE Decor, 10 June 2020
• All the while we will be encouraged by our steadfast belief that the sacred garment that is our country needs us, its warp and weft threads.
  — Scott Santarosa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
• Your natural hair is sectioned into smaller parts and pressed in between two wefts of hair extensions.
  — Jazmine Boutte, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024
• Revealed in this warp and weft is the overlap in the behavioral patterns of humans and wolves, as well as the limits of language.
  — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Days correspond to individual rows in the weavings, and deaths appear as dropouts in the weft.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022
• And a friend, a young businessman, recounted how a powerful jana could be heard beating the weft of her loom in a nearby cave.
  — Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
• While the rest of them carried waist-length wefts, Leavitt stuck to an unusual-for-Utah chin-skimming bob.
  — Anneke Knot, Glamour, 14 May 2025