spiel
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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
With “The Phoenician Scheme,” Anderson is celebrating the art of the spiel, the capitalism that artists are supposed to be against.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
He has long integrated assertions about a third term into his political spiel.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
He must have hated me behind his spiel, yet he'd ignored me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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 was hired to do sleight-of-hand tricks at a shop in Manhattan and later had his first writing credit, a 1946 booklet, “The Encyclopedia of Patter,” inspired by magicians’ onstage spiels.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Well, for Heaven's sake here was the old minister started off again on one of his historical spiels.
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
"You can't lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
One night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded.
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
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
It was such a cinch that Merritt, who looked after the snake while I did the spieling and sold tickets on the front, commenced to get worried for fear we should lose him.
From Side Show Studies by Oliver Herford
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