spin a yarn in a sentence
Examples
- These topics she related without artifice, but with an abiding love of language and a natural raconteur's ability to spin a yarn.
- The nature of their delivery is reflected in the spin a yarn ", by way of analogy with the production of yarn.
- The now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner profiled MacDonald the following day as The Delegate Who Isn t Spins a Yarn .
- When my first-grade teacher ran out of things for the squirming class to do, she'd let me stand near her desk and spin a yarn.
- Jolly notes from a steam calliope bounce through the chill night air, and a storyteller spins a yarn by the light of a roaring bonfire.
- But ask him about the name again and he spins a yarn about a flying saucer that landed at 29th and Geary Streets in the 1950's.
- To make him reconsider shooting him, Cletis ( who isn't really Cletis ) offers to spin a yarn full of jewel heists, prison breaks and The Girl.
- Heinlein ( himself a medically retired U . S . naval officer ) spins a yarn about a radiation-blinded spaceship engineer crisscrossing the solar system writing and singing songs.
- Jacques departs from his popular " Redwall " series to spin a yarn based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship cursed to sail the seas forever.
- Ask about his books and he'll spin a yarn or two about how he traveled down a winding river to find a desolate ancient ruin for a scene in one of his novels.