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Example sentences for "spilled"

Lexicographically close words:
spile; spiled; spiles; spill; spille; spilling; spillover; spills; spillway; spilt
  1. Hard as I feigned to study, there was still some of my eyesight that spilled beyond the book upon Catriona.

  2. He saw again the old tobacco pouch spilled on Inspector Barker's desk in the barracks at Medicine Hat.

  3. Hungrily the halfbreed's eyes roamed to the tobacco pouch spilled on the blotter; the old corncob pipe was fumbling expectantly in his big fist.

  4. As a matter of fact, there was just a nice patch of fairly soft ground, and he came to earth, and spilled the air out of his 'chute, without any trouble at all.

  5. The instant he was on the ground, and had spilled air, he wiggled out of the harness, gathered up the 'chute and shoved it well out of sight under some bushes.

  6. Those and other words of anguish spilled off his lips as he hammered his Lockheed down in a wing-screaming dive.

  7. A sigh of relief spilled from his lips when he saw that he still had enough high octane for thirty-five minutes of flying.

  8. He limped over to finger the spilled treasures on the table.

  9. Big Ivan took up the earthenware pot, carried it to the table, and spilled its contents upon the well-scrubbed boards.

  10. Prale unwrapped it, and some cards spilled out.

  11. The contents of his suit case were spilled on the floor.

  12. The landlady gave him some brandy, but the burning stuff choked his throat until it closed and the brandy ran out of his quivering blue lips and spilled on his chin.

  13. All about her on the floor was a litter of foul straw, muddied by many feet and stained with spilled drink.

  14. First silence your own dark soul--silence reproach for blood spilled wantonly, for tears your deeds have made to flow.

  15. The fight raged as though the blood spilled were but oil cast into a furnace.

  16. Here and there stores were opened nakedly to the street, their contents spilled about.

  17. It lunged eastward into Arizona and Nevada, it swarmed north up the San Joaquin Valley through Fresno and spilled over the lip of the High Sierras toward Lake Tahoe.

  18. Unrest in Sierra Leone and Liberia has spilled over into Guinea on several occasions over the past decade, threatening stability and creating humanitarian emergencies.

  19. No marvel is it that the horn spilled its wine.

  20. Now when King Arthur saw it spilled out upon all, he forgot his sorrow and wrath, and began to laugh and made great joy.

  21. She could not remember whether the curtain had been drawn across the window or not; and when she dared to name this doubt to Andrew, he only answered-- "What for are you asking after spilled milk?

  22. The hamper of food was spilled and broken and they had hours to wait by the roadside while a wrecking crew came from the nearest city to right the car.

  23. The agonies of the woman who has been married to the wrong man have been celebrated innumerably and vats of tears spilled over them.

  24. There was another when Jim spilled his own great weight into a chair.

  25. My better judgment tells me he is innocent, and I don't want to shed the only blood that will be spilled during this awful campaign.

  26. Does not the sight of all the blood spilled on the guillotine satisfy you?

  27. On the altars of the chapels were spilled bouquets and bottles of wine pell-mell with sausages, pates, vegetables, and meats.

  28. Slashing and biting, braving the peril of its roaring jaws, he tore away at the vital streams of his foe until they spilled recklessly, and the raging heart that drove them was betrayed in a self-defeating carnage of red.

  29. A cloud of soot spilled down the chimney and across the hearth.

  30. Finally she spilled a great armful of "empties" down on the long drain-board of the sink, turned to the wall, and buried her face in her hands.

  31. And further, that while suffering under this delusion, and being greatly excited and rendered tremulous by it, he accidentally spilled the remainder of the chloroform over himself.

  32. He always spilled the chloroform into a napkin formed into a rude resemblance of a cornucopia, and then inhaled it.

  33. There was a very strong smell of chloroform about the place, and a large, a very large quantity had been spilled over the beard and shirt and waistcoat of deceased.

  34. Unable to move a muscle, he stared as the conning-tower hatch opened and a couple of men spilled out onto the wet deck and hurried toward the bow.

  35. As the wishful words spilled off his lips, he was in the act of doing what little he could.

  36. An ultimatum surfaced after all of the questions had spilled from my parent's minds: Norm would no longer be welcome in the home unless he married.

  37. I felt my stomach surge as the plane taxied near the gate and people in the waiting room spilled out of their seats toward the doorway.

  38. His age had oppressed him in the last few days, and he carried stains, like spilled wine, on his cheeks.

  39. When Cupid came in with the decanter of Burgundy, he filled a glass and held it absently against the light, but he did not drink it, and in a moment he put it down with so tremulous a hand that the wine spilled upon the floor.

  40. He paused to knock the head off a champagne bottle, and lifting the broken neck to his lips drained the foaming wine, which spilled in white froth upon his clothes.

  41. In an open recess in the vault there was a dull yellow mass; the explosion had spilled the front rows of coin to a golden heap.

  42. Wyn was no coward; she had shown that the time she and Bessie Lavine were spilled out of their canoes in the middle of the lake.

  43. Grace could return the compliment--had she so wished--the two canoes crashed together and both girls were spilled into the lake.

  44. I am going to climb back up to the boulder and collect the belongings I spilled on the way down.

  45. Reversed the coat to shake it out, and spilled your stuff.

  46. I heard Ernest ask your mother if she had cleaned that spot off his Sunday suit, where somebody spilled ice cream on him at the party.

  47. Things didn't look exactly rosy, specially when we got spilled out," one of the girls added.

  48. Clumps of white elderberry blossoms spilled their fragrance, and the wind rustling through the long stems of the weeds and prairie grass droned monotonous tunes.

  49. A slice of thick bread and butter, half soaked in the spilled beverage, was on a plate, and that a dirty one; and the tray which held the meal was offered to the poor sick woman so carelessly, that the contents were nearly shot into her lap.


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