Sentence examples for a yarn to from inspiring English sources

Conrad's series hero, Charles Marlow, is discovered spinning a yarn to a group of friends on board his yacht, in the mouth of the Thames.

Yet the Mount escapades make for guilty pleasure, told with the gusto of a great uncle who realises he's pushed a yarn to the point of incredulity, then tips back the brandy and continues.

It fit their view of the evil empire and fell in the same category as the story of the K.G.B. plotting the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II -- too good a yarn to check or dispute.

But Conservative MP Michael Ellis, a member of the committee, accused the officers of "disgraceful conduct", saying they had "spun a yarn to the press to get someone out of high office".

"In spite of his failing health, he always had a yarn to tell," Fliedner wrote.

How's that for a yarn to make performers soar while grinning from ear to ear? That's how the show opens, with the troupe cavorting down the aisles and kidding with each other and the customers before settling into the standard format of minstrelsy.

If one pound is used as a standard unit, for example, a very fine yarn will have to be much longer than a coarser yarn to weigh a pound, so higher counts indicate finer yarns.

"ColorZen has one location in China, which means that companies have to transport their fibers to this facility, have it treated, and then transported to a yarn plant to have it spun," said Sarkar.

But he has a compelling yarn to tell, more enrapturing perhaps than any of them.

They're thoroughly researched and richly detailed, written by an author who knows his stuff and how to turn it into a good yarn to boot.

The room-temperature thermal conductivity of the 10 μm yarn is (60 ± 20) W m−1 K−1, the highest measured result for a CNT yarn to date.