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
Our men in their trenches were cleaning rifles, packing away spare kit, yarning there much as they yarned of old over the stockyard fence or the gate of the horse paddock.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
He sang and he yarned time about—the songs for the children, the yarns for us.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
He lay back in his rubbed leather armchair and yarned for twenty minutes.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
