Example Sentences
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Spurts and dribbles of paint cover the floor and the black trousers that some of the servers are wearing.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2018
Spurts of well-publicized activism do occur, of course.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2015
Spurts of movement — diagonal runs from the wings; slow, exaggerated steps; and springy jumps — often serve to accentuate the wistful text, which magnifies the idea of multiple, insecure fathers-to-be.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2013
This shallow pool which ruffling in the breeze, Spurts gold and azure at the morning sun, Ere night will be a blot of slimy lees, By the absorbing heat and wind foredone.
From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.
Spurts of red-tinged smoke eddied from her open scuttles.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
