Example Sentences

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But will we be hearing the truth, or just some well-spun lies?

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2023

And yet, after all this well-spun cleverness, I was disappointed and a bit befuddled by the ease with which Carrie learns of Allison’s perfidy at the episode’s end.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2015

While I like Starbucks Starbucks and appreciate a well-spun Felix Hernandez shutout as much as the next guy, I don’t care a lick about what goes on in Seattle.

From Forbes • Feb. 2, 2015

Yet I continually gravitate toward it, because for all my love of dancing, I’m a song person, susceptible to well-spun melodies and stories in slanted rhyme.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2012

He believed now that the chief stripes, viz.—observation, inclination, advancement and accomplishment, in the well-spun web of matrimony, must harmonise with the groundwork of happiness, without which our lives are not worth an unstamped coin.

From Irene Iddesleigh by Ros, Amanda McKittrick