Example Sentences

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A basic search for flights will give an estimate of how many kilograms of carbon dioxide the flight will spew from start to finish.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

When they’re harvested, sequestered carbon will spew back into the atmosphere.

From Slate • May 25, 2020

Each vent will spew polluted air that may alter the chemistry of the moors.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2016

The campaign treats ponds with mild pesticides and teaches villagers to filter drinking water and not dunk painful limbs into ponds, because the worms will spew out larvae, starting the cycle anew.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2014

Corinna, in the morning dizen'd, Who sees, will spew; who smells, be poison'd.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst