How to Use "yarn" with Example Sentences

1. In 1700 a spinster with a pedal-driven spinning wheel might take 200 hours to produce a pound of yarn .
2. And visitors get to put their heads and hands in the stocks for a photograph , help the tinsmith make spoons , or feed yarn to women in costume who are weaving .
3. Like the eponymous fable , alibaba.com is a good yarn .
4. This story of israeli acceptance and arab rejection is not just a yarn convenient to israel 's supporters .
5. But that apart , it is an enjoyable yarn about a famous author 's incongruous role in a murky , vitally important period of european history .