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Example sentences for "pours"

Lexicographically close words:
pourraient; pourrait; pourri; pourroit; pourront; poursuivre; pourtant; pourtray; pourtrayed; pourtraying
  1. Sweet is the rural festive song, Which sounds so wildly o'er the plain, When thoughtless mirth the notes prolong, And heart-felt pleasure pours the strain.

  2. The man who fills his being with the noblest books, and pours their beauty out in word and deed, is like the merry singers on the placid moonlit lake.

  3. Yonder, sure, Old Nilus pours Into this Sea, the Waters of the World, Whose secret is his own and thine and mine.

  4. I likened it to the Mississippi as it appears before the impetuous, full-volumed Missouri pours its rusty brown water into it.

  5. Yet Tintern is most beautiful of all when the full moon rising over the eastern hills pours a flood of light through the broken east window to the place where once stood the high altar.

  6. Near its mouth the Little Peribonca joins it, and the immense flood, nearly two miles wide, pours into Lake St. John.

  7. He pours out and hands him a cup of coffee.

  8. He pours wine into two glasses] Drink it up!

  9. LARRY pours wine into a deep-coloured glass and drinks it off.

  10. The ebb tide runs faster than the flood; for the ebb is hurried seawards, pressed on its flanks as it goes, by the weight of water that pours off the flats from either side of the channel.

  11. Yet still a goodly height it seems From which the mountain pours his streams, Or hinders, with caressing hands, The sunlight seeking other lands.

  12. To no cold ear was that appeal prefer'd; With glowing bosom grateful England heard; With liberal hand she pours the prompt relief, Soothes the sick head, and wipes the tear of grief.

  13. Asserts its empire in the glittering bowl, And pours Promethean vigour o'er the soul.

  14. Many of these springs intersect the region with rills and rivulets, and assist in forming a beautiful sheet of water in the southern suburbs of the city, which eventually pours out its waters into the Mississippi.

  15. Through the facade of these bluffs pours in the tribute of the Merrimac, a bright, sparkling, beautiful stream.

  16. On Saturday evenings, especially when wages are paid and work stops somewhat earlier than usual, when the whole working-class pours from its own poor quarters into the main thoroughfares, intemperance may be seen in all its brutality.

  17. The mother goes to the mill shortly after five o'clock in the morning, and comes home at eight at night; all day the milk pours from her breasts, so that her clothing drips with it.

  18. He pours his large, loving heart out to the congregation so dear to him, in glowing, earnest, soul-stirring accents.

  19. There this blessed apostle, under the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost, pours out his heart to the Gentile converts in words of glowing earnestness and commanding power.

  20. She pours upon us a flood of questions, most of which relate to her own husband, such as--When did we see him last?

  21. No sooner has he again alighted, and the conjugal contract has been sealed, than, as if his breast was about to be rent with delight, he again pours forth his notes with more softness and richness than before.

  22. His beautiful wings are gently raised, he bows to his love, and, again bouncing upwards, opens his bill and pours forth his melody, full of exultation at the conquest which he has made.

  23. All birds that love the English sky Throng round my path when she is by: The blackbird from a neighboring thorn With music brims the cup of morn, And in a thick, melodious rain The mavis pours her mellow strain!

  24. He has been silently brooding over the swollen arrogance and malicious lies of the tyrant, till he can restrain himself no longer, and out pours a fiery flood.

  25. For a cup is in the hands of Jehovah, And it foams with wine; it is full of mixture, And He pours out from it: Yea, its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth gulp down and drink.

  26. As the psalmist pours out his petitions, they glide into prophecies; for they are desires fashioned upon promises, and bear, in their very earnestness, the pledge of their realisation.

  27. He pours love on the unworthy, but that is a different thing from the love with which He responds to such abandonment of self and other loves.

  28. The second part of the psalm takes up the question of the refrain, and first reiterates with bitter emphasis that the soul is bowed down, and then pours out once more the stream of reasons for dejection.

  29. The word means literally heat; and we may represent the psalmist's thought as being that the wrath shoots forth many fierce tongues of licking flame, or, like a lava stream, pours out in many branches.

  30. Be gracious to me" asks that the light, which pours through the universe, may fall on one heart, which is surrounded by earth-born darkness.

  31. From my tender eyes pours forth a flood of tears, Wetting my cheeks from the springs of weeping.

  32. It is the channel of the almighty Spirit as it goes forth for the sanctification of the race,--the very gulf-stream of eternal life as it pours out for the resuscitation of our wilted and decaying world.

  33. The looks and gestures of the Saviour seem to demonstrate that the blood which pours from His riven side is freely given for the redemption of the world.

  34. As he arrives at the marriage pavilion he touches it with a stick, on which the bride's brother who is seated above the shed pours down some water and is given a present of money by the bridegroom.

  35. In the evening a common feast is held at which the Baiga presides, and when this is over they go to the place where Mahadeo is worshipped and the Baiga pours milk over the stone that represents him.

  36. A plant of the sacred tulsi or basil is usually kept in the yard, and every morning the householder pours a vessel of water over it as he bathes, and in the evening places a lamp beside it.

  37. In the Nerbudda valley the farmservant who pours the seed through the tube of the sowing-plough is known as Oraya; this word is probably derived from the verb urna to pour, and means 'one who pours.

  38. He takes a large brass plate and placing the feet of his guest on it, pours water over them and then rubs and dries them; the water is thrown away and fresh water poured out for the next guest unless they should be brothers.

  39. He touches a bamboo of this, and a man seated on the top pours turmeric and water over his head.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.