Example Sentences

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At a public meeting, enraged by people fretting about the safety of their sheep and children, Inti gets to her feet: “If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you’re blind,” she says.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

Roth, who earned an estimated $17 million last year selling some 7 million copies, is but one of many ink spillers whose literary successes have translated into box office hits.

From Forbes • Mar. 25, 2015

Are we of this generation worthy descendants of tea spillers and abolitionists?

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore