Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: yarn
IPA transcription: [j'ɑɹn]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: yarn
    Meaning: tell or spin a yarn
Usage examples
  • Remember, I want a page yarn.
  • And the Soap-stick's the very yarn for it."
  • It was a good yarn, and they enlarged upon it.
  • "I haven't heard any yarn about him," said the Bibliomaniac.
  • You don't yourself believe that last yarn about the Prohibition candidate, do you?"
  • After more of the same kind of talk, he began to cook up some yarn to tell the valet.
  • She held in her hand a distaff, wound with black and white woollen yarn, with which were sparingly intermixed strands of silk and gold.
  • I want you to note the contents of her beautiful home; if she likes dogs or cats or horses. You will take a camera and get half a dozen good pictures, and a page yarn for Easter Sunday.
  • 'May I ask,' I said, beginning to think that his yarn smelt somewhat fishy, 'what house this was?' 'The place,' he replied, as cool as a cucumber, 'is called Clover Cottage.' 'What's that!' I cried--I almost jumped out of my chair.
  • Well, as I was about to observe--when I was interrupted--Graham started spinning a yarn about how he had forced his way into a house, in which there was a young woman all alone, by herself, and, so far as I could make out, gone on awful.