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That’s because the public that has bought into its inflated spiel may end up being let down with a jolt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Upon landing, the flight attendant’s voice rang over the intercom to give us the usual spiel as our aircraft made its way to the jet bridge.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026

I brought nice stationary to school, gave all the kids my spiel about the horrors of animal testing, and asked them to spend their recess telling P&G their thoughts.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025

Mr. Brady pulled off Don Profondo’s patter song “Medaglie incomparabili,” a tongue-twisting list of precious objects, as an auctioneer’s spiel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

This was probably the first chance he had got to spiel these ideas out to somebody.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025

The stray references in these spiels are still hot, such as the one to “John Lovitz” and “SNL when it was good.”

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2024

He speaks quickly, in what you might call an excitable mumble, ending many spiels in “you know what I mean?”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

Sure, the hosts have their one-liners ready, presenters have minute-long spiels memorized and performers know exactly where to stand on stage — but that doesn't mean everything always goes according to plan.

From Fox News ● Feb. 21, 2019

He spiels off two or three stickfuls and then stops.

From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William

Moses sipped, while his team spieled tasting notes that reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario.

From Time Magazine Archive

One source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You can't lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clifton's voice came to me as he spieled his directions for making it dance, and I held it by the feet and stretched its neck, seeing it crumple and slide forward.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

After spieling off a few tips about grip and stance, he belts out a few balls.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few hours he would be on a campus stage singing his songs and spieling his narrative jazz poetry to an audience of college kids.

From Time Magazine Archive

Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was just what me and Buck wanted—a regular business at a permanent stand, with an open air spieling with tonsilitis on the street corners every evening.

From The Gentle Grafter by Greening, H. C.