Example Sentences

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In their first season under new manager John Farrell, the Red Sox had spurted to a 20-8 opening.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2013

As spontaneously and unreasonably as buying had spurted, prices mounted.

From Time Magazine Archive

This pressure put a new kind of strain on an economy which, even before the Korean war began, had spurted to a peacetime high.

From Time Magazine Archive

His explanation was that drought suffering had spurted upward prodigiously in the last fortnight.

From Time Magazine Archive

But his or not, it had spurted all over him, and the shirt—and the pants as well—might be beyond hope.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt