Example Sentences

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The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025

The stray references in these spiels are still hot, such as the one to “John Lovitz” and “SNL when it was good.”

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2024

He was hired to do sleight-of-hand tricks at a shop in Manhattan and later had his first writing credit, a 1946 booklet, “The Encyclopedia of Patter,” inspired by magicians’ onstage spiels.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

At the Élysée, I was surprised by Macron’s willingness to genuinely engage with my questions, rather than use them as prompts for prefab spiels.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

I hear the whaups on windy days    Cry up among the peat    Whaur, on the road that spiels the braes,    I've heard ma ain sheep's feet.

From Penny Plain by Douglas, O.