spin a yarn
Example Sentences
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Miller can still spin a yarn some four years after retiring following a 30-year run as NBC’s unfiltered lead analyst.
From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023
Spoiler alert: Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are likable guys, who can spin a yarn.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021
“To me, there is probably not a greater storyteller as a play-by-play person. He can spin a yarn like nobody else, and it made games definitely more enjoyable to watch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2017
Jim Comey knows how to spin a yarn.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2016
I remember hearing a fellow spin a yarn once about how he had escaped being ill at sea, by tying a handkerchief over his eyes so that he couldn't see the jiggle-joggling of the water.
From Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
