Example Sentences

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Unusually, he noted, stocks have spilt from a years-long correlation with deposits and liquidity.

From Reuters • May 30, 2023

“No, no,” she says, not unkindly, more as if I have spilt something down myself.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2017

Bioethicists have spilt a lot of ink doing just that, and many of their arguments have converged on a similar sentiment.

From Scientific American • Sep. 17, 2012

This is the fourth evening running you have spilt something on the tablecloth, Molly.

From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.

Confess'd by men whom friends have flayed, Teem in the wind-swept, shatter'd strands— Blind batter'd keels that know no rest 'Mid surge of moans that tombs have spilt.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean