Example Sentences

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Mathematicians and Sounders hopefuls will spout every cliché in stating there is still a chance the most successful MLS franchise over the past decade can advance to a record 14th consecutive postseason.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2022

If the farmers can't feed those crops soon, far fewer of the so-called tillers will spout, jeopardizing a national wheat harvest on which millions in the developing world depend.

From Reuters • Mar. 11, 2022

But bring up the ancient burial mounds of Sutton Hoo in southeast England, and even the most circumspect scholar will spout superlatives.

From National Geographic • Jan. 29, 2021

"It showed you the enormous hypocrisy of this guy, who will spout all these things about how he loves his wife, but he's suing her."

From Reuters • Jul. 9, 2014

"Perhaps there may be some valuable substance in this volcano, which it will spout forth, and which we may turn to good account!"

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules