How to Use weft in a Sentence

weft

noun

• The threads that go up and down on the loom are called the warp, and those that go from left to right are called the weft.
  — ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• The warp and weft of the fabric's tight weave give it a two-tone effect.
  — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Cut too-long hems with scissors, then pull out some of the weft yarns (the white fringe) for effect.
  — Lauren Chan, Glamour, 20 July 2017
• The even-weave fabric has the same distance between the warp and weft (over and under) threads.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The best way to think about truth is not in the abstract but in media res, as it is found in the warp and weft of human life.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• Estes deftly marries the warp of sharp outlines to the weft of the wobbly mirage.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Even my in-denial parents could only pretend not to smell the smoke that clung to the weft of my sweater.
  — Nicole Walker, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Best to remain narcotized and between the Zen warp and weft of high thread-count sheets.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• The women were dressed: bare midriffs, stiletto pumps, long wefts of hair, thick black lashes.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• But, far more pervasively, the races, large and small, form the weft that ties my life together through the years.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2020
• Paintings and silk-screen prints from the ’60s and ’70s pick up the superform and the warp and weft patterns of Mr. Bayrle’s weaving years.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Lombardo has such a fine eye for the weft and warp of a family’s fabric.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
• The systematic warp and weft of the loom, after all, was the template for the first computer.
  — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Thread count is determined by the number of threads lengthwise (called the warp) and widthwise (the weft) in a one-inch square of fabric.
  — Kelley Carter, ELLE Decor, 10 June 2020
• Thread count is determined by the number of threads lengthwise (called the warp) and widthwise (called the weft) in a 1-inch square of fabric.
  — Hannah Morrill, ELLE Decor, 15 Nov. 2018
• They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.
  — Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
• Melanj Hair's clip-in and weft hair extensions range from tightly coiled to silk-press straightened.
  — Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 15 Mar. 2023
• Revealed in this warp and weft is the overlap in the behavioral patterns of humans and wolves, as well as the limits of language.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• The weft method of installation involves using microbeads to attach tracks of hair to the client's head.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 30 Dec. 2021
• Tape-ins can be damaging to your hair and the breakage will be far worse if the wefts are not installed by a professional.
  — Tayler Adigun, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
• The two points of view make the book a kind of loom worked between Kellen and Nettle, a warp and weft intersecting to bring a richer image into view.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• And a friend, a young businessman, recounted how a powerful jana could be heard beating the weft of her loom in a nearby cave.
  — Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
• The online site offers bundles, meaning the hair is on a weft that can either be used for a sew-in weave or a wig, in addition to lace closures and frontals.
  — Lara Adekola, Allure, 2 Mar. 2018
• Days correspond to individual rows in the weavings, and deaths appear as dropouts in the weft.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022
• The warp and weft create a reassuring rhythm, shapes and symbols and bands of color serve as signposts, but the path is windy and uncertain.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Moving through headlines at three miles an hour reveals this intimate warp and weft.
  — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• In a sheet, threads are woven into vertical strands referred to as the warp weave and horizontal strands referred to as the weft weave.
  — Carsen Joenk, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2020
• Entanglement, then, may undergird the structure of space itself, forming the warp and weft that give rise to the geometry of the world.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• But Bourdain’s brashness came with an immense humility that really made up the warp and weft of his TV shows.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
• Picks like the Luxy Hair extensions have a higher amount of wefts (10 total) for our friends with denser hair, whereas options like the Hidden Crown clip-ins (with three wefts) are best for those with thinner hair.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024