Sentence examples for as a yarn from inspiring English sources

Still, the days when someone with no education could walk into a plant and get a job as a yarn creeler are gone.

The Holy Grail of solar-fashion sustainability, she explains, would be a solar cell that exists as a yarn.

You should use a crochet hook, as it won't make as many holes in the existing strips as a yarn needle will.

Making only five dollars a week under sponsorship, Mainer found that he could earn up to three times as much working at a yarn mill, which he described as being "gold" for the era.

On the way to New Orleans there is time for both lessons and adventures, and if this isn't quite as good a yarn as Huck's story, well, what is?

Certainly Wallace's life is as rattling a yarn as any of the 170 or so novels he knocked out at breakneck speed.

The assertion came as part of a yarn about a high-tech client (Mr. Rose would not disclose the identity) and an environmental group that was nipping at its heels over electronic waste.

"Eugene is best understood and appreciated as... a yarn spinner...

For this reason, elastomeric fibre is frequently used as the core of a yarn and is covered with a nonstretch fibre of either natural or man-made origin.

(Petrusich) THE BLACK KEYS (Thursday) White musicians reappropriating and re-packaging scrappy Chicago and Mississippi blues is a yarn almost as ancient as the blues itself, but this duo, based in Akron, Ohio, makes an improbably appealing fuss.

The same dictionary describes a "yarn" as being a "tall tale" and gives as an example "a roaring good yarn".