spun out

Gillian Flynn, the bestselling suspense writer of Gone Girl, has also spun out a juicy thriller.

Journalist Stephen Glass fabricating companies whose threads were spun out of his fertile imagination.

In the financial press, the fall of Facebook has been spun out like a Sophoclean tragedy.

In that spirit, conservatives spun out an explanation, a sinister one, for what Roberts did.

Lois Romano on how a well-intentioned program spun out of control.

Spun out over a line of twenty rods, the cavalcade was the image of senseless rout.

As the sugar is melted, it will be spun out in floss form through the small holes into the pan receiver.

Then it spun out of the cave and down a fairly good road in the direction of Carwell.

Is selfishnessFor time, a sin—spun out to eternityCelestial prudence?

Whether work or play, they were just so many devices for shortening the spun-out tale of days.