spin-off

How to use spin-off in a sentence

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

You can probably realize just how headquarters would take the sort of yarn we'd spin if we dashed in and told them the truth.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

"Let us go down the shore a bit," suggested Jack to Pepper and Andy, and the three joined hands for the spin.

In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.

There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.

She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.

Consequently Tchaikovsky delighted in hearing her recall the joys and sorrows of those far-off days.

The women of the interior spin and weave for their household, and they also embroider very beautifully.

That little chapel, he continues, which contains the cast-off garments of his soul, is bright with solid silver.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985