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- noun Plural form of
yarn . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
yarn .
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Examples
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I feel your interest, and I know you are interested in yarns from the front; and I only wish you were not so busy, and that my voice could ramble on and on, and I could tell you many more instances; but I trust that now you have made me a member of your Club there may be an opportunity of coming back to Toronto again during the next few months, perhaps not as an invited guest, but as one of your own members, and be able to spend a few more moments with you some evening as pleasantly as I have today.
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So perhaps my knitter's obsession with flecked yarns is not simply an addiction, but is rooted in a deeper artistic vision: that of the greater beauty of delicately trembling variety.
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So perhaps my knitter's obsession with flecked yarns is not simply an addiction, but is rooted in a deeper artistic vision: that of the greater beauty of delicately trembling variety.
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Defendant manufactured certain yarns that were labeled as containing cashmere, but their cashmere content was allegedly below that labeled or even nonexistent.
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But issues are easier to revisit and spin yarns about than not having issues.
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Reliable information was at a premium; there was no verifying or disproving of rumors and yarns from the East.
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The sky will also be covered in yarns, but the sea will be beaded.
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The sky will also be covered in yarns, but the sea will be beaded.
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Some of you very pragmatic people still think that maybe I spin yarns of a fairy tale.
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Iain Banks gets a lot of praise for his "literature" novels, but Iain M Banks still writes "yarns" - good at what they are, well-told, but somehow lesser.
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