yarn
noun
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
yarned
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past participleof yarn.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof yarn.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
yarnnounthread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
Example Sentences
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As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
They yarned and gossiped sometimes, too, about the things that had happened, and what Potch had done while Sophie was away.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
Thus they yarned on, and at last Clay took his departure, for it was late.
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
I yarned to him about how fond I was of athletics and swimming, how many miles I could walk at a stretch.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann
