Example Sentences

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Higher fuel prices were spilling to shipping costs, airfare and fertilizer.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Hundreds of real estate brokers were spilling off the sidewalk and into the street around New York City Hall.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2024

As kids were spilling out of the gates at Helen Keller Elementary School in Lynwood, outreach worker Alma Aracen tried to talk to the parents crowded outside.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022

Bennani and Barki captured the sense that isolation didn’t suit city people — that their pent-up energy and longing were spilling into the streets.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021

My words were spilling fast, like pennies from a holey pocket.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate