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Partway through his spiel, Burns activated the speaker on his iPhone and held it to the microphone so the president could address the crowd.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 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

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

What are we to make of Miller’s spiel about L.A.?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

This was probably the first chance he had got to spiel these ideas out to somebody.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

He speaks quickly, in what you might call an excitable mumble, ending many spiels in “you know what I mean?”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

I hear the whaups on windy days    Cry up among the peat    Whaur, on the road that spiels the braes,    I've heard ma ain sheep's feet.

From Penny Plain by Douglas, O.

Moses sipped, while his team spieled tasting notes that reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

One source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm.

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

So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario.

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

Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded.

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

Then eye to eye, and hands on one another's shoulders, they fell to "spieling," with occasional Polka divertisements.

From Little Aliens by Kelly, Myra