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Discover Ludwig"balls of yarn" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to literal balls of yarn, or to describe someone's tangled thoughts or emotions. Example: As she sat on her bed, surrounded by balls of yarn and tangled knitting needles, she realized she had no idea how to make sense of her jumbled feelings for her best friend.
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Iggy Pop ruminates on our gran's balls of yarn?
The table is covered with bits of cloth and balls of yarn.
She has been knitting, and the electric-blue needles and the balls of yarn lie in her lap, along with three or four cats.
On a recent Tuesday, Andie Eagle and her fifth-grade classmates refreshed their knitting skills, crisscrossing wooden needles around balls of yarn, making fabric swatches.
Parents, keep some fancy pens and balls of yarn on hand, and don't forget to check your children's backpacks after field trips to the aquarium.
Yoshi can use his long tongue to grab and swallow enemies, thereby producing balls of yarn which are used to tie up foes or access new areas.
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By folding or reeling the building unit, we demonstrated the multiple shapes of millimeter-scale cellular constructs such as coiled and ball-of-yarn-shaped structures.
These appear as dense structures proposed to have a ball-of-yarn-like architecture.
She meticulously showed each thread in a ball of yarn.
On the first day back, "We did an activity where a teacher had a ball of yarn and she threw the ball of yarn to us.
The luxury company is selling a ball of yarn for $9,000.
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