Example Sentences
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Spurts and dribbles of paint cover the floor and the black trousers that some of the servers are wearing.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2018
Spurts of well-publicized activism do occur, of course.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2015
Spurts of movement — diagonal runs from the wings; slow, exaggerated steps; and springy jumps — often serve to accentuate the wistful text, which magnifies the idea of multiple, insecure fathers-to-be.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2013
Spurts of icy spray shot upwards from the bows and were blown back across the fore-deck of the ship, searing the skin of the tired men on watch.
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)
Spurts of shrapnel lashed past them whirling the white dust.
From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)
