spin
verb (used with object)
to make (yarn) by drawing out, twisting, and winding fibers.
have spun
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present perfectof spin.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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One number shows how thoroughly this year’s Celtics have spun straw into gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
She married that expertise with the kind of hardscrabble, up-by-her-bootstraps backstory that a calculating political consultant might have spun from whole cloth, had it not been so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Netflix would have spun it out into a mini-series.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
Prosecutors have spun a dizzying set of accusations against Bob Menendez, filing four rounds of charges that involve a halal meat monopoly, a Qatari sheikh and the inner workings of the U.S. government.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
His eyes must have bulged in pain, his mind must have spun in disbelief.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
