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
They are both, that is to say, resounding testaments from British dramatists to the particular power of live theater to spin a yarn that ties an audience in knots.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2016
It would only increase the boy’s nervousness, and convince him only more of the fact that he could not spin a yarn.
From Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights by Grayson, J. J.
