yarn spinner
Example Sentences
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Like his characters, Wilson is a first-rate yarn spinner.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022
He told me that his father found work as a woollen yarn spinner at the Thomas Carr mill.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2019
This is true whether it’s a professional fraud like John or a yarn spinner like the traveling salesman portrayed by Jordan Lage in “Prairie du Chien.”
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015
As the rougher edges of Mr. Harris’s voice came to the fore, he slipped into the persona of an itinerant folk-blues yarn spinner.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2010
"Because we are depending, in large part, on what Bahama Bill has to tell, and he's the worst yarn spinner I ever ran across."
From The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. by Stratemeyer, Edward
