21.   The authors stop the rush to recipe long enough to spin exotic yarns from history, religion and lore.

22.   The teller in the ATM is supposed to be counting out your cash, not spinning a yarn.

23.   The yarns are spun in bold, vivid color, accompanied by the warm, open grins of Tennesseans who clearly revel in the telling.

24.   There, he collected odd tales after visiting his old roommate from Yale, where he decided he had a facility for spinning yarns.

25.   Two newspaper reporters spin a yarn about an American professor who stumbles onto an art-smuggling ring after the suspicious death of a Chinese-American colleague.

26.   We all spin yarns, tell tales, pull legs and speak with forked tongues.

27.   White and Benes are spinning baseball yarns.

28.   Can a company whose business for decades has been spinning yarn create a successful brand out of a fruit juice overnight?

29.   Collecting native dyes and spinning yarn is far more labor intensive and, therefore, may cause the weaving to be more expensive.

30.   He would prefer to whittle, and spin yarns, and share his art.