spiel
noun
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
spieled
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past participleof spiel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof spiel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
spielnouna usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
Example Sentences
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Moses sipped, while his team spieled tasting notes that reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows."
From Time Magazine Archive
"You can't lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review.
From Time Magazine Archive
One source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm.
From Time Magazine Archive
A clipped, insinuating voice spieled words whose meaning I couldn't catch and I was about to pass on when I saw the boy.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
