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There are moon-shaped crescents, cosmic starbursts and wiggling worms, arranged in an indiscriminate muddle, as if someone had spilt a bowl of spaghetti shapes across the map.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2018

For all the emotion she invests in the line, you'd think someone had spilt a drop of Merlot on her Axminster.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2013

There was the feeling of impersonal plenty when I saw a boll of cotton whose cup had spilt over and straggled its white fleece toward the earth.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

I explained that I was absolutely sure that no one present had ever smelt the odour of the chemical composition I had spilt.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave

They would have made three of ours, and were much more like quails that had spilt strawberry juice on their breasts.

From Lady Betty Across the Water by Lowell, Orson