Sentence examples for a yarn or two from inspiring English sources

In fact, we swopped a yarn or two with them.

2.02pm GMT Still raining… … and John Starbuck can't even respond to a simple request for a yarn or two.

By then, we are likely to have several more thoughtful books about the economic crisis and perhaps a good yarn or two about Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns or Bernard Madoff.

Buy several different colors of yarn, or one spool of multi-colored yarn.

The plot is complex and helter-skelter, and Barnes plays with the reader's expectations: is this a detective novel, an occult thriller, a horror yarn, or all three?

Angus then spins a yarn of two local boys, one with a knack for farming and the other skilled at drawing.

She is a habitual knitter, rarely to be found without needles in hand and a bag or two of yarn by her side.

Always buy enough yarn and an extra ball or two at the same time, so you get all the yarn from the same dye lot.

Must-see art-house movie of the moment is How I Ended This Summer, a gripping yarn of two men's psychological duel on a remote Arctic island.

It has the advantage of confining and guiding the fluid along the yarns in a one, two or three dimensional space.

Batting a bouncy ball around or unraveling a ball of yarn are two good examples.