spout
verb (used with object)
to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
have been spouting
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present perfect progressiveof spout.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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A lot of small minded and opinionated people have been spouting of in the debate of women and football.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2011
Members of this unofficial mission, to the distress of His Majesty's Government, have been spouting up & down Japan of late their ardent hope for a resumption of the pre-War Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there is no mound, and the rocks of the fissure are just beginning to get a coating of the silicious geyserite deposited from the water, so that it cannot long have been spouting.
From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Charles Morris
