spin out

The truth was just too complicated to spin out; he had no real intent to deceive.

What a proper place for a philosopher to spin out the remnant of his days!

It is not necessary, therefore, to spin out this introduction.

But the future poets will not spin out their ideas in metre at great length.

Then the brown web of the seine began to spin out over the stern.

For dreams need not time to spin out their intolerable length.

The answer was, that she had really been trying to spin out three pages.

You might care to take a spin out into the surrounding country.

He was gauging the distance to the hangar door, the positions of the guards, the time it would take to spin out the combination.

It seems he was returning from a spin out on the Barnes road and accidentally ran his machine against you.