Example sentences for: spinning

How can you use “spinning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton's advisers, who used to protect him by spinning and covering up his wrongdoing, have turned skeptical.

  • Meanwhile, WorldCom is spinning the deal as "the single best hope for a strong and effective alternative to the mega-Bells and the emerging AT&T cable monopoly."

  • In this particular case, let's just say when the original advice was given the wheel was spinning, but the hamster had gone.

  • Much as the one tangible consequence of Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise" speech, in 1979, was that it taught millions of Americans a new French word (which Carter in his speech in fact never uttered; the word was picked up from pre-speech "spinning" by Carter's political adviser, Patrick Caddell), so too a consequence of the Thompson committee hearings has been to give wide currency to the term soft money , in the sense of "money that can be collected for use in political campaigns but which enjoys an existence outside the rules, the oversight, and the control of the Federal Election Commission."

  • Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.


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