Word Finder - wove

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To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

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This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.

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To spin a cocoon or a web.

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Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.

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To unite by close connection or intermixture.

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To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

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to weave the plot of a story

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(of paper) made on a mould of closely woven wire

She wove through the activity until she saw Vara.

His eyes spotted the form he sought, and he wove his way through the crowd, trailing her down a quiet side street.

They wove their way through the panicked crowds toward Andre's building.

Angry voices wove in and out of the crowd's jeering and the ringing of her ears.

Wesley skilfully wove these into his system, and kept the whole machinery moving harmoniously.

Lotze again wove together many threads of earlier thought, though the web was assuredly his own.

The setting sun cast a golden light on the sand, and sharp dune crests wove their languid path across the lunar landscape.

They wove a reed hawser for him, they cut sticks for him.

The northern Algonquin and Iroquoian tribes practised similar arts, and in the Atlantic states wove robes of animal and bird skins by cutting the latter into long strips, winding these strips on twine of hemp, and weaving them by the same processes employed in their basketry.

The wool was spun into yarn and the material woven, oftentimes people spun their own yarn with a spinning wheel and wove material on a home loom.

He wove this awakening into the story of Tommy.

She wove her way to her bathroom through the maze of boxes and took a long shower to ease her tired body.

He wove through the crowd, peering between his eyelashes before he reached the main table where Hilden stood.

He appeared unconcerned, gaze on the cars she wove between.

The project of a Crusade and of an attack on Constantinople wove themselves into a single thread, in a way which very definitely anticipates the Fourth Crusade of 1202-1204.

In the absence of positive information the 4th-century writers (on whom Plutarch and Nepos mainly rely) seized upon his surname of "Just," and wove round it a number of anecdotes more picturesque than historical.

Sixteen women, representing eight towns of Elis and eight of Pisatis, wove the festal robe for the Olympian Hera.

Through the medium of French-speaking Bretons these tales came to the cognizance of Northern French poets, notably Chretien de Troyes, who wove them into romances.

All she had to do was choose the color she wanted to wear-- black for the past several days in silent objection to her presence aboard the ship-- and the ship's computer wove it for her.

Proceeding upon such lines as these, the Jews wove together their Midrashic homilies or sermons where, though we may find much that seems commonplace, there are illuminating parables and proverbs, metaphors and similes, the whole affording admirable examples of the contemporary thought and culture, both of the writers and - what is often overlooked - the level of their hearers or readers.