spout
verb (used with object)
to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
had spouted
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past perfectof spout.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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During eleven days, the well had spouted more than 200 thousand gallons.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared say "No," 4,283,395 had spouted "Yes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli.
From Time Magazine Archive
It looked for all the world like Old Faithful had spouted in a poll-parrot cage.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
And Dunbar had spouted endlessly about a world of treasure they would find, if they would just follow old Dunbar.
From To Each His Star by Bryce Walton
