Example Sentences

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Not too long ago, had one typed “New Orleans Saints” into Google Maps, this is what would have spouted forth: “Religious institution.”

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021

More tantalizing, dark streaks near the poles suggest that occasional geysering on the frozen moon may have spouted carbon or some other organic material.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a room by himself he would have spouted to the empty air.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

Finally he threw back the lids, feeling that in another moment he must have spouted Italian or French out of pure magic, simply to tell this fool inspector what he thought of him.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison

Great rents in the earth were reported, and for many miles north from Los Angeles miniature geysers are said to have spouted volcano-like streams of hot mud.

From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Morris, Charles