spurt
verb (used without object)
to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
were spurting
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past progressiveof spurt.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Flames were spurting from every window, and through the roof, even as they came into plain sight of the house, there burst a great pillar of fire.
From The Belgians to the Front by William Almon Wolff
Over there it was as if heavy raindrops were falling on a dusty road; everywhere little columns of sand were spurting up into the air.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
We heard that she had left the bay at noon the same day -- just as we were spurting our hardest to reach her.
From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Arthur G. Chater
We heard that she had left the bay at noon the same day — just as we were spurting our hardest to reach her.
From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 by Arthur G. Chater
Our shell-bursts had gone much farther up the hill—one realised that; and heavy black clouds were spurting into the air below Boiselle, just behind the hill's shoulder.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
