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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When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared say "No," 4,283,395 had spouted "Yes."
From Time Magazine Archive
During eleven days, the well had spouted more than 200 thousand gallons.
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
The hot rock had spouted high in the thin air, and it had frozen as it threw itself frantically out from the inferno of heat that had given it birth.
From The Finding of Haldgren by Charles Willard Diffin
A few miles ahead and below them were great mounds, not unlike that from which the geyser had spouted.
From Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth by Roy Rockwood
