Spiel

//ʃpiːl//

"Spiel" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Have you been here before? Do you want to hear my pathetic obligatory marketing spiel?

Just let Tom do his spiel.

As soon as we get on the topic of unreliable narrators, Tom always launches into a long spiel about Holden Caulfield.

Tom patiently listened to the door-to-door salesman's entire spiel before politely declining his offer and wishing him a good day.

I listened to the salesman's spiel but did not buy anything.

I’m fed up with that spiel.

I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel

The spiel ran on; the sale was brief and brisk; / The bargains fell to bidders, one by one. / Hope flushed my cheekbones with a scarlet disk.

An Air Force recruiter (Gino Anania) visits her school and delivers a spiel about anti-terrorist successes in Iraq; she contradicts him with the plain facts of the 2001 attacks.

Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."

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A typical Last Poets song consisted of a "spiel," an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.

Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]

For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile, then he spieled again.

[…] Oedipa spotted among searchlights and staring crowds a KCUF mobile unit, with her husband Mucho inside it, spieling into a microphone.

The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards

On the Dock and Greensands the classical discus, or quoit, has in season due its modicum of disciples, (b) When the Nith is frozen over its surface becomes the scene of many a curling spiel

A few organizational difficulties marred this spiel and the next, but thereafter most of the wrinkles were ironed out.

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