How to Use weaver in a Sentence
weaver
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All proceeds from the sale of the rug go directly to the weaver.
—Allie Torgan, CNN, 30 July 2020
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The best place to get one used to be at the weaver’s souk, Fondouk Chejra, near the Marché Central.
—Tara Stevens Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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The goddess was a weaver fairy and the youngest daughter of the almighty goddess of heaven.
—Wei Li, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2020
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But the magic weavers of the wings, those are the players that get the pulse racing and win over the neutrals.
—Daniel Gallan, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
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Many of the weavers, who mostly come from the Tai ethnic group, survived.
—New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
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For the carpet weavers, that’s meant their wares were once again banned under U.S. law.
—Mehdi Fattahi, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
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Anna Landis was a Swiss silk weaver, fifty-six years of age.
—Scientific American, 19 June 2020
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At more than 12 millimeters long (half an inch), the beetle dwarfed the weaver ants.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2020
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Artist and weaver Roger Cheney built this four-bedroom adobe house in 1937.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 9 Oct. 2022
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The sociable weaver builds one of the most unusual types of nests.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2022
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That’s where her first collection of bags, called Akamae (named for one of the weavers), was born.
—Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
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The space is shared with artist and weaver Megan Karlen (seen here), of Conscientious Cloth.
—Nick Maslow, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
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Her roots at the trading post run deep: Her mother also worked as a weaver at Hubbell.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
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The original weaver’s cottages from 1503 can be seen on the hillside looking over the vines.
—Tyler Wetherall, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2018
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The pair authored the first book about Navajo weaving written by Diné weavers.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
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Don’t miss the Commercial Gallery, run by Kristine Kjos, a weaver and seamstress.
—Star Tribune Staff, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
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Longaberger was founded by Dave Longaberger, the son of basket weavers, in 1973.
—Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 29 June 2018
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From weavers to writers, lots of people use machines to improve their work.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023
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Working from these samples, a skilled weaver used a Jacquard loom to replicate the brilliant red-and-white design.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
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The cottages at Bisate look like giant weaver nests tucked into a hillside.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
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The hands of the weaver will create a basket that can’t be duplicated by anyone else.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
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Each stripe of the rug is made up of 25 different yarns in complementary tones, the order of which is chosen by the weaver.
—New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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Found in sub-Saharan Africa, the sparrow-sized bird is a member of the weaver family.
—Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
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Blacksmiths, weavers and others will demonstrate their crafts too.
—Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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The rhetoric of freedom and self-determination must have appealed to the young Fichte, the son of a ribbon-weaver in Saxony.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
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Now, instead of a master weaver being required to make cloth, an unschooled child could work a loom.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
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The weavers receive 90 percent of the purchase price for each item, while the remaining 10 percent helps to cover the cost of supplies.
—Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
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She and her mother had hired a local driver to visit some textile weavers in the town of Teotitlán del Valle.
—Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
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Travelers will meet the country’s leading weavers, and learn the secret to crafting the perfect 15-year malt whisky.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2018
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But for the weavers trying to sell their rugs under its ancient arches, their world has only unraveled since the collapse of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers and wider tensions with the West.
—Mehdi Fattahi, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
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