Example Sentences

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Sightings of boars trotting along the streets have become so commonplace in some neighbourhoods of the Italian capital that the problem has spilt over into campaigning for Rome’s mayoral election.

From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2021

And this conversation has spilt on to social media and India is in the grip of, to borrow a phrase from Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, a "million mutinies now".

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2017

In mid-November, a rust-colored mountain of barley looks as if it has spilt out from the silos at Moree's southern end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Dutchy is laying it off because someone has spilt water on the main-hatch, where a sail is spread out, ready for his work.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

He seems to hate the heights he cannot climb to, He thinks your poetry a coxcomb's whim, A good deal of his sawdust he has spilt on Shakspeare, and Moli�re, and you, and Milton.

From Letters to Dead Authors by Lang, Andrew