yarn spinner
Example Sentences
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Like his characters, Wilson is a first-rate yarn spinner.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022
He told me that his father found work as a woollen yarn spinner at the Thomas Carr mill.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2019
True, Conrad’s narrator, a yarn spinner not an activist, does little more than bear witness, but he sees clearly.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017
This is true whether it’s a professional fraud like John or a yarn spinner like the traveling salesman portrayed by Jordan Lage in “Prairie du Chien.”
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015
"It's true that he is a yarn spinner," said Dick, "but behind it all father says he tells a pretty straight story of how the treasure was stolen and secreted on Treasure Isle."
From The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. by Stratemeyer, Edward
