Sentence examples for yarn from inspiring English sources

But before a cotton dress is cut and stitched it is dyed and printed; before that it is woven from yarn into cloth; before that it is spun from raw cotton into yarn.

This is Boris's yarn, and it's what enables him to be "weaponised".

A feel-good yarn about a budding dancer in the north-east, Stephen Daldry's movie previewed to cheering audiences at this year's Cannes and Edinburgh film festivals and looks set for rave reviews when it opens nationwide this weekend.

The entertainment reporter Peter Ford was also interviewed about The House of Hancock and described it as a "ripping yarn" straight out of the US television tradition.

Fernandes shows that it's a yarn that isn't based on fact in his compelling 2004 book, Reluctant Saviour.

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw went so far as to call Inglourious Basterds "achtung-achtung-ach-mein-Gott atrocious", adding: "It isn't funny; it isn't exciting; it isn't a realistic war movie, yet neither is it an entertaining genre spoof or a clever counterfactual wartime yarn.

Hörchner's story had all the elements of a quirky Australian yarn and was duly widely followed up in Australia and overseas, in stories that poked fun at animal activists who complained about swearing at sheep.

Daniel Finkelstein in the Times wasn't sure whether Lewis's account "will remake the markets" or "whether it even should", but one thing was clear: "like every other book I've read of his, Flash Boys is a great yarn from beginning to end".

As a young boy growing up in the North East, I remember being hooked by this Carnegie award-winning yarn about five children from the region who find a working machine gun in a crashed Luftwaffe plane and set about defending their home town from bombing raids with dramatic results.

The meeting was in darkness, except for a small lantern near Gandhi.India never fully shared Gandhi's dream of a small-scale, self-sufficient economy, its swadeshi (own-country) garments made of hand-spun yarn hand-woven on home looms.

But Japan's problems are so ingrained that the DPJ has so far been unable to do much .Contemporary Japan" teems with dates and data; it is useful for those in search of understanding but is not for the casual reader who wants a good yarn.