Examples of 'skein' in a sentence
Meaning of "skein"
The noun 'skein' refers to a length of thread or yarn wound in a loose coil. It can also be used more metaphorically to describe a twisted or complicated situation
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- A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
- A web, a weave, a tangle.
- The membrane of a fish ovary.
- A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
How to use "skein" in a sentence
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Pick up a ball or skein of the next color.
One skein of yarn will definitely be enough.
The characteristic straight line called a skein.
No media to unravel the skein of the soup.
I started by measuring the length of the skein.
Look at that skein of iron oxide.
The fibers form a vertical cylindrical skein.
The skein is too tangled to be unravelled.
You appear to be tangled in the skein of fate.
The skein is hung on a hanger nail of a scale plate.
Difficult to draw the skein of truth in his biography.
Bellare is one of the authors of skein.
It shows us the skein thread from where to pull.
An inquiry was opened to unravel the threads of the skein.
I bought an extra skein but it was not enough.
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The soul can be physiologically reduced to a skein of vibrations.
Choose a suitable skein of wool and place it in your basket.
By way of illustration there follows an exemplary embodiment of a skein.
Less than one skein of each.
It was so hard to walk away with just one skein.
The best way to know is to skein it and wash it.
Small skein in the universe.
I have another skein here.
Untangling the skein of frailty to leave the maze of disability.
I am none of his skein mates.
This skein will be for me.
Memories are like a skein of thread.
We have got a house to stock with skin and skein.
I would tie one end of a skein of thread to the entrance.
The following is an example of a typical computation using a skein relation.
I bought a skein for a scarf.
This process continues until the whole skein is wound.
Thick skein of wool.
The wire would come out and make a skein.
No matter how tangled the skein of their own lives may be.
It relates more particularly to a bow intended to receive such a skein.
My dream intertwines with sadness like a skein of a thousand threads.
Skein support bow.
You hold the skein.
Fold the skein and put the second skein approx.
By anyone who would seek to unravel the tangled skein of.
You will have a skein on the sked before you can say.
He was imbedded in a skein of debt.
There is only one man capable of unraveling this tangled skein.
I looked through him to the skein of lies he had woven around himself.
The cook is only the beginning of the thread of the skein.
The length of the skein is compatible with the winding deviceʼs capacity.
From sheep to skein.
In a skein of streets.
I used quite a bit less than one skein of each color.
