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
"Because we are depending, in large part, on what Bahama Bill has to tell, he's the worst yarn spinner I ever ran across."
From The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle Or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht by Stratemeyer, Edward