Sentence examples for with a yarn from inspiring English sources

The president was also good with a yarn.

Instead she entertained me with a yarn about how she nearly burnt down her flat while trying to bake a potato – under the grill.

On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year's production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.

For all his vigor Mr. Cantor, after inventing the characters who will bear out his larger ideas, manipulates each one like a cat with a yarn ball, endlessly rotating and exploring what is already familiar.

We finish this tale with a yarn about triumph over adversity for Bruce Springsteen's Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) and her beau: "I'm comin' to liberate you, confiscate you, I want to be your man".

In the knitting process, the needles are pushed up and down by cams attached to a carriage with a yarn guide, which moves over the length of the machine.

Flexible supercapacitors with a yarn-like geometry were fabricated with coaxially arranged electrodes.

Interviews and focus group discussions were undertaken from February 2011 to February 2012 using open-ended questioning with a yarning technique.

The electrolytes were 0.1 M BMP.TFSI in propylene carbonate (c) and 0.2 M TBA.PF6 in acetonitrile (d) [1]. Figure 2b shows torsional rotation and tensile actuation versus time for a CNT yarn muscle (with a 40° yarn bias angle for CNT orientation with respect to the yarn axis) that uses the configuration of Figure 2a.

There are usually seven threads to the inch across the width, with a pile yarn length per thread of about 35 feet (11 metres).

It's a rollicking yarn with a thread of tender first love, a page-turning tale of 18th century devilry.