skein in English

noun
1
a length of thread or yarn, loosely coiled and knotted.
I drove to the beautiful Fisher Building in Detroit and then I counted skeins and skeins of yarn for the inventory at City Knits.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "skein" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "skein", or refer to the context using the word "skein" in the English Dictionary.

1. a twisted skein of lies.

2. This skein of wool won't disentangle.

3. She passed me a skein of wool.

4. She'd obtained a Skein of Geese matchbook from somewhere.

5. But now, the old skein of mutual responsibility was unraveling.

6. A skein of duck came across, gabbling softly to themselves.

7. A Combed skein of hair forms the background to the smaller …

8. Amoretto - alpaca cotton blend hand knitting and crochet yarn 100g skein TheLittleKnittingCo

9. He rose, walked round the table and picked up the skein.

10. The packaging varies from DIN 160 size to wooden skein reels.

11. Electronic single strand strength tester, yarn twist tester, skein yarn tester, ect.

12. Correlation is negative at the 0.05 level with Filament size and Skein ratio.

13. Corbett tried to think back, unravelling the skein of information he had gathered. Sentencedict.com

14. Take a look at the Japan woman falling to winning unique skill skein!

15. A group of Curlews is called a curfew, a salon, or skein of Curlews

16. Beaded yarn PAIR UP this beautiful Holiday Scarf pattern by Artyarns shown above uses 1 skein of Beaded Silk Rhapsody With Sequins (shown in 2246 Gold) and 1 skein of Silk Mohair 2246

17. Lately, there has been a skein of such dangerous discoveries, one with deadly consequences.

18. Sally held the skein of wool while her mother wound it into a ball.

19. When I referred to this restaurant of his, the Skein of Geese, her ears pricked up.

20. He would put some one together, build an Identity, a skein of persuasion and habit, ever so subtle.

21. Goneril slunk into the kitchen and wound her body like a fat skein of wool around my feet.

22. The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her.

23. Our particular causality skein has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations.

24. The runway had upon it a light skein of mist, and he sailed through it and up into the high air.

25. The Adventuresome Wrap was designed with a Yarn Advent Calendar in mind to make the most of daily mini-skein gifts that appear

26. Avoirdupois Sentence Examples In some districts, especially in Yorkshire, the count is based on the number of yards per ounce, and in others the older method of drams Avoirdupois per woo yard skein.

27. The Besprinkled Hat is the perfect textured, warm toque to show off that cute hand dyed skein in your stash! It highlights those variegations and speckles in the yarn like no other texture will

28. 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove: It came back to Lord Mark again, as he seemed slowly to pass and repass and conveniently to linger before them; he was personally the note of the blue—like a suspended skein of silk within reach of the Broiderer's hand

29. Besprinkled: In this dyeing method, we sprinkle the dye onto the hank in a way that it allows for runs of color, not just specks of color as in our Speckled collection, and not full color sections as in our Kaleidoscope collection.Primarily on a Natural background, these are nice on their own for a lighter look or a nice complement to a darker, fuller toned skein.