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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

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

"The spiel that I'm reading from people saying how off it we are. We won two games on the bounce and you're upset about it, I don't get it."

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

Why otherwise intelligent people, including political leaders and finance professionals, swallowed his spiel whole is the enduring mystery about Bankman-Fried and crypto.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

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

Wang now spends his time trying to help other victims of similar spiels.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

Angelica gives us a fine view of her back hair, and Mr. Curlylocks begins where he left off, and spiels away.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

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

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows."

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

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

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

When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

One night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded.

From Time Magazine Archive

The faint sounds of the tiki-drums and the spieling Jungle Cruise guides leaked through the room, a low-key ambient buzz from two of the Park’s oldest rides.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow