Sentence examples for having a yarn from inspiring English sources

A 100%% grey cotton fabric used for experiments was procured from Tata mills, Mumbai, with a plain weave having a yarn count of 40 (The count of the cotton yarn is equal to the number of 840-yard skeins of cotton required to weigh 1 pound) and with a weight of 85 g/m2.

Sharing a cigarette and having a yarn, was an important social activity, contributing to a sense of belonging to the Aboriginal community.

This involved monitoring a person's healthcare and medication usage via community follow ups, having a yarn and getting to know the person, hence, assisting to 'close the gap', i.e. improve the health of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples: If they see people aren't coming to the chemist… they [pharmacist] should make it their business to go out to their house.

But when the time comes, we'll reminisce, have a yarn about and I can't wait.

He walks out of rehearsals for Ilbijerri Theatre Company and Belvoir's Coranderrk, in inner city Northcote, to light a hand-rolled cigarette and have a yarn.

And so we golf and have a yarn, and discuss with His Majesty important matters of golf and wine and rugby league, and that he plays left-handed despite kicking a footy with his right foot.

What happens is this: you lob on the Monday, check in, sign in, say hello and have a yarn with Judy and Jackie and Susan, and effectively take up conversation you left the year before.

They all got together, and when the football season was ready to start, all the blackfellas and whitefellas got together and had a yarn and said 'we should put a team in the juniors'.

What drink to order with such a line-up is admirably assisted by Tristan, a solemn young sommelier with a dazzling knowledge of obscure wines – he seems to have found some corkers (ouch), each listed with the soil its grapes have grown in, and every one of them has a yarn attached, which he delivers with aplomb.

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

It was a storytelling tradition: Everyone had a yarn at the bar, on a swinging porch, or sitting in a fishing boat.