Sentence examples for yarns which from inspiring English sources

But the weaving of these yarns, which may be only one-thousandth of a millimetre thick, is complicated and expensive.

The Onion is better at spotting good yarns, which is why, despite the recession, it is prospering.

The fine yarns, which were dyed black, brown, and red, were woven into loincloths, sashes, skirts, and burial shrouds.

Good Yarns, which has dispensed classic fiction and cookbooks, self-help and history, picture books and potboilers for 25 years, is for sale and selling off its stock.

In this technique, coloured yarns, which form the pattern, lie at slight angles from the horizontal, and herringbone effects are often created by changing the angle of alternate rows.

A splendid job of skewering much of the white-man snobbery of what had gone before was done by the Python spin-off Ripping Yarns, which came a little later.

(The same thing is true of sportswriting: we go to it for either W. C. Heinz's tears or Jim Murray's jokes, Gary Smith's epics or Roy Blount, Jr.,'s yarns, which suggests that, with the minor arts, our approach is classical and depends on unity of tone).

I still find the disingenuous likes of "The occasional irregularities and gentle shadings you may notice in this fabric are characteristic of the fine yarns which create its beauty and dramatic texture" irritating now, long after the tag caused me, when buying the garment, to check it over carefully for defects masquerading as "beauty".