yarn

I was afraid to tell my story directly, wanted to couch it in a fanciful (and imitative) yarn of sex and intrigue.

So we learned about it when Republicans raised it, and it became the latest ball of yarn for the news media.

In other words, he took substantial liberties with the facts to improve the yarn.

I wur, an' I wurn't, which is not mebbe a very plain statement, but you kin jedge fur yourself if you care to hear my yarn.

He threw the paper across to the young men to sign as witnesses, and then returned to his glass and his yarn.

This man was a manufacturer of linen cloth, and used to bleach his own yarn.

Starters should not wind on to bobbins when there is yarn on to piece up by.

I told you there was quite a yarn hitched to that smokin' business.