How to Use skein in a Sentence

skein

noun

• And that was just the first of a four-tweet thread, a skein that ended with the rolling-on-the-floor-laughing emoji.
  — Glenn Whipp, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The dozen skein paintings present disheveled amalgams of hues and weaves.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Most color keys will show the symbol, then the color number found on the skein of floss, then the name of that color.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Skeins retail at $35, and all funds stay in Michigan and support the farmers, the mills and their future project.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2017
• Farming and ranching groups from across the Great Plains sent skeins of fence wire and new metal posts to drive three feet into the soil.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2017
• East Asia’s growth pattern has for decades been likened to a skein of geese, from Japan at the vanguard to laggards such as Myanmar at the rear.
  — The Economist, 30 Aug. 2017
• Wrap one skein of thick orange yarn (or two skeins of thin orange yarn) around a 12-inch foam wreath form so the threads lay neatly.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2022
• The glands hold two kinds of cells: one type is packed with tiny mucus sacs, and cells of the other type each hold one long protein-rich thread, coiled like a skein of yarn.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2018
• Her hair hung like a skein of silk, immune to humidity.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• Shade trees spindled past skeins of electrical wire, while the low plastic chairs of an open-air cafe sat neatly in the shade of a long, blank wall.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• But tugging at that thread unravelled a vast, tangled skein of male angst.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Where another granny might clutch her knitting needle and skein of yarn, Neel has a paintbrush and a white painter’s rag.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• This was funny for a moment, and then not—a thin skein of anxiety started winding its way across the room.
  — Zephyr Teachout, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• The tonnarelli cacio e pepe, a skein of strands adorned only with cheese and black pepper, nods to Roman shepherds who used the spice to keep warm.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 27 June 2017
• The sky over Capitan Peak was going from orange and pink to deep blue and black, and long skeins of sandhill cranes coursed overhead.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
• One was the 1966 poster of Bob Dylan that showed him with snakelike hair blossoming into a skein of rainbows.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Amid the books at her side is a bright orange skein of yarn and a pair of knitting needles -- the hobby keeps her calm and her attention stable.
  — Reuters, ABC News, 5 June 2021
• Her first notes stretched out atop a shimmer of percussion and a skein of strings, their attack marked by icy chimes and spindly xylophones.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• This should be the season the Mariners finally end the 21-year drought, the longest skein without a playoff berth in North American team sports.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
• The installation’s skein of lines might thus be read as mere abstraction, like a Jackson Pollock on the grass.
  — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• His house was another thread in the skein of complications that consumed his life, all of which were caused or made worse by a lack of money.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• The crochet pieces in this article used one skein of KnitPicks Palette in the colorway Chicory and a 3.75mm hook.
  — Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Kalmerton has most success fishing skein or flies for the spawning chinook.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2021
• In the rear, scores of electrical cords sprawled across the floor keep the heaters and lights humming, a tangle that recalls the jumbled skeins of paint in a Jackson Pollock drip painting.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• The film begins with Deren bearing a skein of yarn and, with forced gaiety, recruiting Christiani for its winding (as Nin looms in the background).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• But with seven of the next eight games on the road — starting with Wednesday’s visit to the New York Islanders — this could be a chance to get a negative skein out of their system.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• Even the smell of an outhouse, braided with skeins of cigarette smoke, fondly connotes rustic life, my stint in a cabin in the black spruce here.
  — Michael Engelhard, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 July 2017
• To meet her deadline, Durant recruited a skein full of knitters to assist.
  — Abby Ellin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
• To meet her deadline, Ms. Durant recruited a skein full of knitters to assist.
  — Abby Ellin, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Here, cliffs rise at near-right angles to the highway, which is protected by giant skeins of webbing that catch the falling boulders.
  — Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 26 May 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024