spiel
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“I don’t have my spiel yet!” she warns, inquiring for the first of a few times what I thought of it and whether I enjoyed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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
After a while of filming my front door—brown, wooden, three rectangular windows at the top, nothing special, really—they went and did their spiel on the sidewalk.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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
At the Élysée, I was surprised by Macron’s willingness to genuinely engage with my questions, rather than use them as prompts for prefab spiels.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
They have lectured audiences galore and talked to countless journalists, and have learned to refine their spiels.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
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
So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario.
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
A clipped, insinuating voice spieled words whose meaning I couldn't catch and I was about to pass on when I saw the boy.
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
When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father.
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
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
From spieling the stock markets a feller could lose his shirt yet.
From Elkan Lubliner, American by Montague Glass
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