Meaning of spiel in English
(Definition of spiel from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of spiel from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of spiel
spiel
A recorded spiel offers the first sign that things have changed on the 54-year-old mine train.
From Los Angeles Times
Spiel was eventually dropped from the suit, court records show.
I really wish these article writers would at least do the minimum of research required to write a very short spiel!
From Los Angeles Times
But this sales spiel takes on heightened new meaning when the item being hawked is a home built for riding out the apocalypse.
From TIME
Our fun-loving, wise-cracking spiel usually included the downed airplane just before the hippos.
From Huffington Post
They even gave us a simple spiel to tell them in case they had questions.
From Huffington Post
That's the short and sweet version of my spiel on action.
From Huffington Post
Perhaps you thought that he genuinely wanted to have a conversation only to find out that you wouldn't be given a chance to respond to his spiel?
From The New Yorker
The people who are using this in the recreational space -- they know what they want, and they don't want to hear the whole spiel every time.
From NPR
But conservatives hear that spiel every day.
From Slate Magazine
I would go into neighborhoods and give my spiel.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
He spiels off two or three stickfuls and then stops.
From Project Gutenberg
But spiel as beautiful as he would, he couldn't raise answerin' delight on the face of his benefactor-to-be.
From Project Gutenberg
You spiel by holding hands with your partner at arms' length, and whirling round and round at the highest possible speed.
From Project Gutenberg
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