Example Sentences

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The Icelandic department that oversees emergency response reported that thin-flowing lava was spurting from a fissure of 100 metres or more.

From Nature • Aug. 28, 2014

Its seven-year plan, due to end last year, failed to meet its goals and had to be extended�while South Korea's healthy economy was spurting ahead at a G.N.P. rate of 8.4% in 1967.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of Bird Two's engines was spurting oil, and Earthquake feathered it.

From Time Magazine Archive

I looked, and saw Karli’s eyes opening, and then he was coughing and choking, the water was spurting up out of his mouth onto the kitchen floor.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

No artery was spurting, but Yossarian pretended to absorb himself entirely into the fashioning of a tourniquet, because applying a tourniquet was something he did know how to do.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller