yarn
noun
thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
yarning
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present participleof yarn.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019
None surpasses the Sage of Burwash at yarning in dialects of all sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Merlyn's knack for livery yarning and his ability for introspection give the book its special quality: a fat, comercial novel with a lean, serious writer signaling wildly to get out.
From Time Magazine Archive
You know it very well, and all this yarning is pure bluster.
From An Artist in Crime by Rodrigues Ottolengui
