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
Pao-yü upon hearing her ask this question, forthwith suppressed a laugh, and, with a glib tongue, he began to spin a yarn.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
