How to Use skein in a Sentence

skein

noun
  • This yarn is dyed by hand so every skein is unique.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The skein of stock success has ended.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 May 2026
  • The dozen skein paintings present disheveled amalgams of hues and weaves.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • But tugging at that thread unravelled a vast, tangled skein of male angst.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Yardage Always, always check the yardage of a skein of knitting yarn.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Kalmerton has most success fishing skein or flies for the spawning chinook.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 script adorns its skein of criminal dealings with idiosyncratic action, too.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The net itself is an intricate skein of marine-grade stainless steel — enough to fill seven football fields.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • To meet her deadline, Durant recruited a skein full of knitters to assist.
    — Abby Ellin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • This yarn skein is $10 for 170 yards and is more than enough to make several amigurumi projects.
    — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hundreds of new skeins are being added, including new brands and Joann private label favorites.
    — Chad Murphy, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Michaels also sells an assortment of knitting accessories like stitch markers, skein holders, and more.
    — Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The ceiling looked as though skeins of lace had been stretched across it and magically turned to stone; the windows shimmered as if gemstones had been pressed into glass.
    — Joanna Pocock, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
  • Kit includes Heidi's cool pattern and one skein of Madelinetosh Yarn.
    — Mary Mooney, OregonLive.com, 11 June 2018
  • 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
  • Understanding why her case is still cold requires untangling the strands of a messy skein of an investigation.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 18 July 2023

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