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How to use weaver in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Weaver means a person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living. Example: “Many weavers "unspin" the yarns and respin them to a finer weight.”

More sentences with weaver

  • Many weavers "unspin" the yarns and respin them to a finer weight.2018, Lynda Teller Pete, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today. From the entry unspin
  • Well, the matter seems clear to me," said the craftmaster of the weavers and dyers.2008, Hilari Bell, Rise of a Hero. From the entry craftsmaster
  • Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.2007, Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry trade
  • Therefore, a Jurassic araneofauna existed of orb-web weavers (Orbiculariae) including both cribellate uloborids and ecribellate araneoids.2007, David M. Martill, The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World. From the entry araneofauna
  • In Valinor, the Elves are masons, gemwrights, and boat-builders, and their wives talented weavers and embroiderers.2005, Ty Rosenthal, The Arts & Crafts Movement and JRR Tolkien - Ansereg. From the entry gemwright
  • Birders come here to look for Finch's francolin, Congo moor chat and black- chinned weaver, among others.2003, Sophie Warne, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, page 30. From the entry megatick
  • The month is as Octoberly as a Persian rug But no weaver can describe it.2000, John Towey, Recollections in Rhyme, page 57. From the entry Octoberly
  • My father was born of a family of weavers in Manchester, England.1954, The Rotarian, volume 85:6. From the entry of
  • Among the cleverest of the artists is the diock, of the weaver family.1917, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Birds, page 4. From the entry diock
  • A Lingít master weaver is using viral monster dolls called Labubus to bring attention to Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving.2025 September 25, Yvonne Krumrey, “Ravenstail Labubus bring attention to Indigenous weaving”, in Anchorage Daily News. From the entry Lingít
  • Weaver. — Are you busy? — Yes, Ms.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain). From the entry p.m.
  • By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131. From the entry shuttle
  • A repair heddle allows the weaver to place an empty heddle at any point across the warp and on any shaft.1979, Allen Fannin, Handloom Weaving Technology, page 110. From the entry repair heddle
  • The two types of silk of greatest interest to the hand weaver are known as Organzine and Tram.1951, F[rederick] J[ohn] Christopher, “Materials and Quantities”, in Hand-loom Weaving, London: Frederick Muller, →OCLC. From the entry tram
  • Weaver is the first consistently to employ the hodiernal speech of the American mass for serious narrative and lyric uses.1921 May, John V. A. Weaver, “A Poem in American”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 16, number 3, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry hodiernal
  • When replacing a broken end in the loom the weavers dipped the end in a pot of warm tallow, which was kept for general use.1997, David Paynter, Clive Upton and J.D.A. Widdowson, Yorkshire Words Today: a glossary of regional dialect, The Yorkshire Dialect…. From the entry pot o' one
  • Silk-winders or windsters easily became weavers.1951, Series of Reprints of Scarce Works on Political Economy. From the entry windster
  • A plum-colored starling whistled from the branches of a flowering baobab, and masked weavers wove nests among the fluffy lavender and yellow lantern flowers in the sicklebush.2001, Catherine Stock, Gugu’s House, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry sicklebush
  • I distinguished the rasping whistles of bru-brus, the clarion choruses of red and yellow barbets, the feverish chattering of superb starlings and the harsh squawks of white-headed buffalo weavers.1989, Tom Heaton, In Teleki’s Footsteps: An East African Journey, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry brubru
  • When Flemish weavers settled in East Anglia during the Middle Ages they introduced a technique to the wool trade which produced a cloth of fine fibres and closely twisted yarn.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 414, about Worstead. From the entry worsted

Meaning of weaver

  1. noun A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
  2. noun A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
  3. noun A weaverbird.

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Questions about weaver in a sentence

How do you use weaver in a sentence?
Weaver is used as a noun. For example: “Many weavers "unspin" the yarns and respin them to a finer weight.”
What is a short sentence with weaver?
“Silk-winders or windsters easily became weavers.”
What does weaver mean?
Weaver means a person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.

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