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Example sentences for "yarned"

Lexicographically close words:
yardstick; yark; yarn; yarnder; yarne; yarning; yarns; yars; yashmak; yasu
  1. We yarned a while, and had some tea, and then me and Jim got on our horses and rode on.

  2. With mates who have gone to the great Never-Never, And mates whom I’ve not seen for many a day, I camped on the banks of the Cudgegong River And yarned at the fire by the old bullock-dray.

  3. We never were lonely, for, camping together, We yarned and we smoked the long evenings away, And little I cared for the signs of the weather When snug in my hammock slung under the dray.

  4. He sang and he yarned time about--the songs for the children, the yarns for us.

  5. An awning was always kept spread over the fore part of the ship, and it was under this that the crew smoked and yarned in the evenings.

  6. The newspaper office was next to the bank, and I'd seen her hand cups of tea and cocoa over the fence to his office window more than once, and sometimes they yarned for a while.

  7. We smoked and played cards and yarned and filled 'em up again at the Royal till after one in the morning.

  8. I yarned about my experiences as a mining engineer, and said I could never get out of the trick of looking at country with the eye of the prospector.

  9. We fought the great fight over again, and yarned about technicalities and slanged the Staff in the way young officers have, the father throwing in questions that showed how mighty proud he was of his son.

  10. He lay back in his rubbed leather armchair and yarned for twenty minutes.

  11. So I yarned away to him about his condition and symptoms, emaciated physical state, and so forth.

  12. So we yarned away till we got in sight of the place.

  13. He was a talking sort of chap, and we yarned away with him for a bit.

  14. On such evenings, while Graham and Dick yarned for their hour before bed, Paula no longer played soft things to herself at the piano, but sat with them doing fine embroidery and listening to the talk.

  15. They smoked cigarettes and yarned about their experiences.

  16. General Birdwood during the day had gone the rounds of the trenches and the boys yarned with him as of old.

  17. I introduced Ginger, and unbuckling our sword-belts we sat on his bed and yarned to him.

  18. He seemed to be a friend of the Minister, for he stopped and shook his hand, bowed and yarned quite pleasantly.

  19. They yarned and gossiped sometimes, too, about the things that had happened, and what Potch had done while Sophie was away.

  20. When he yarned with them, Fallen Star men had a downright sense of liking John Armitage.

  21. Michael had intended asking his new mate to go down to the New Town and get the meat for their tea, but he went himself after he had yarned with Archie and Ted Cross for a while.

  22. Some of the men yarned together a bit, I believe, but you may be quite assured that (save for the exception I have mentioned) there was nothing of the kind between the officers.

  23. Aft, McKenzie, Jenkins and Moore (sullen no longer) yarned of their experiences and discussed the future.

  24. Punctuating his conversation with Chinook idioms, he chewed and yarned with the pilot and Nickerson while the crew prepared to get under way again.

  25. Donald had met quite a number of the Eastville fishermen and had yarned with them enough to form a general opinion of their characteristics.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yarned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.