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Example sentences for "spilling"

Lexicographically close words:
spiled; spiles; spill; spille; spilled; spillover; spills; spillway; spilt; spilte
  1. I was in an old drug store, gazing at the jewelry spread upon the counter top and spilling from bins of miscellaneous content, when I spotted a tiny cross which had fallen from it's chain.

  2. Spokima ruptured and is spilling but it doesn't appear to be going out too fast.

  3. Then they vanished, spilling down into tunnels and flowing for hundreds of miles along subterranean aqueducts into great storage reservoirs beneath the surface of the land and protected from the drain of the sun and wind.

  4. There was water in the highlands, in watersheds and spilling unused down to the sea in many areas.

  5. In his surprise he set it awkwardly down again, thereby spilling full half of it.

  6. Colonel Clark roared with laughter, thereby spilling some of his toddy.

  7. She got up impulsively, spilling some of the contents of the pan.

  8. For this purpose a "spilling committee" was appointed for each station and instructed to be where it could do the most good about the time a milk train was due.

  9. Whalen could take a glass of liquid in his hand, mount his horse, ride away a quarter of a mile and return without spilling a drop.

  10. We were spilling pails of water down on the slide.

  11. And Tom's better'n I am about spilling things on the tablecloth at breakfast.

  12. Janet remained up a little longer, listening to Tom and Ted telling over again just how they had carried pails of water to the top of the wooden slope, spilling down the sloping boards the liquid which swished its way like rapids in a river.

  13. I couldn't get that wretched cup back on to its saucer again without spilling the coffee.

  14. None of your quarter-bushels or half-bushels for my insatiable appetite, but the overflowing heap, pressed down and shaken together and spilling all over the place.

  15. The Reindeer was the faster boat, but by spilling the wind from her sails they managed so that the boys could keep them in sight.

  16. They saw the jib run down with a rush and an anchor go overboard as she shot into the wind; and as she fell off and back and off and back with a spilling mainsail, they saw a second anchor go overboard, wide apart from the first.

  17. The mainsail was spilling the wind, and slapping and thrashing about till it seemed it would tear itself to pieces.

  18. By dint of spilling her wine deftly under the table, she had emptied as many mugs as the best bibber among 'em, and at four in the morning found herself the only one who was sober, or even awake.

  19. Down goes the bowl, leeks, carrots, chopper and all a-spilling over the floor.

  20. The latter flushed, and plunging into the corner tumbled the pans about angrily like a spoiled child, spilling as much water on the floor as he could.

  21. Then he returned it to the table without spilling a drop.

  22. While Bogota continues to try to negotiate a settlement, neighboring countries worry about the violence spilling over their borders.

  23. Personally I shouldn't have minded spilling a single drop; it was the thought of spilling the whole glass that kept me back.

  24. I refused at this, but Miss Power went full length on the floor with a glass of water balanced on her forehead and came up again without spilling a single drop.

  25. The bottle came in contact with a stone, and of course broke, spilling the precious contents, as Nahum Sprague thought them.

  26. Now you're going to see what you get for spilling my whisky.

  27. During the four hours or more that the blood-spilling continues, as well as during a period before and after, the street is a dangerous place for the unbeliever.

  28. To this day they retain the custom of answering for every spilling of blood with a revenge; each victim has his victim.

  29. She threw open the lid wide; and there, heaped to the top and spilling over, were dresses and mantles and coats and trousers and caps.

  30. A moment, though, and he was back with a spilling tumbler.

  31. Cleo, her pail of water spilling over her new sneaks.

  32. The big, soft-nosed bullet struck him full in the face, spilling his brains and part of his skull down his back, and knocking him flat as though he had been clubbed.

  33. Speen lay inert, a huddled thing on the floor, a crimson stream spilling its way down over the man's white collar.

  34. For the starched and hotpressed ones of the "Cambrian," though they did not openly say so, held him as in a manner responsible for this inferior spilling all over their idyllic place.

  35. Doors opened almost before the engines had begun to slow down, and (as if the trains had been veins and somebody had suddenly slit them up, spilling out the life within) the platforms were suddenly black and overrun with people.

  36. She holds the town in a three-quarter circle in her arms, with children at play on the sands and super-Briggses and super-Laceys all spilling out in the foreground.

  37. The same result occurs from the contact of a hot or greasy hand or the spilling of a spot of water no matter how quickly removed.

  38. I set the dressing-table on fire by spilling matches and crunching them beneath my heels.

  39. But the regulations came near spilling the baby with the bath.

  40. Cereals that should have been under roof long ago were standing in the fields, spilling their kernels when rain was not rotting them.

  41. That threat, perhaps, was hardly more than the spilling out of bitterness which she had created in him.

  42. Peter detected a tiny glass vial spilling out its dark, volatile fluid upon the dust.

  43. Without spilling a drop, he captained the spoon to its destination, maintaining his clear, deep-blue eyes upon the beautiful brown ones of the young passenger.

  44. She managed to drink her lemonade and eat the sugary cookies without spilling any on his dark Dutch-cut hair or sailor suit.

  45. Now, she jumped up, spilling Em, and dashed after her brother.

  46. Again he divided the gold, this time merely spilling half of it on the ground.

  47. Spilling out of his right hand were the two cartridges which he had failed to put into the gun and which he had clutched until consciousness left him.


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