The breeze was blowing fresh and there was a short sea running and the vessel was laying down to it with the water squirting in through the lee scuppers, and she was pulling over the rollers as gracefully as a steeple-chaser at a low hurdle.
The squid enveloped the jig with its tentacles and would be whisked aboard squirting sepia in protest.
Obeying the advice of the General, they all stole off cautiously towards the dense thicket close at hand, from which came the noise of breaking branches, and strange snorts and sighs mingled with the squirting and splashing of water.
It was just like a fountain of fire squirting up, with volumes of smoke and steam above it all lit up with the glow, and round it jagged, white lightning kept blazing and darting about.
Gerard seems to have grown it, though from his describing it as a native of the sandy shores of the Mediterranean, he perhaps confused it with the Squirting Cucumber (Momordica elaterium).
And it feeds by taking a beakful of mud from the bottom of a pond or ditch, squirting out the mud itself through the grooves, and then swallowing the grubs and other small creatures which are left behind.
And the grub swims by filling this tube with water, and then squirting it out again with all its force, so that the escaping jet pushes, as it were, against the surrounding water, and drives the insect swiftly forward by the recoil.
If it should be hot, it can take a shower-bath by squirting water over its body instead.
I saw a picture of an elephant squirting water through his nose-trunk just like your fire engine, Freddie.
So we thought of putting raspberries in a cup, and cooking them over a candle, and squirting milk straight into each other's mouths.
The heavy smell was replaced by the smell of aromatic vinegar, which Kitty with pouting lips and puffed-out, rosy cheeks was squirting through a little pipe.
The children, left to themselves, had begun cooking raspberries over the candles and squirting milk into each other's mouths with a syringe.
What I had seen was a slow peddling-out of Admiralty allowance for the month, and it seemed to me more like squirting death through a hose than any ordinary gun-practice.
The first tungsten lamps appeared on the market in 1906, but these contained fragile filaments made by the squirting process.
After Edison's later success with bamboo, Swan invented a process of squirtingfilaments of nitrocellulose into a coagulating liquid, after which they are carbonized.
After a few turns our winch refused to move, and only a small part of the opening had been uncovered, from which the water was squirting furiously.
Our lively interpreter went down on hands and knees and made an earnest examination, despite the squirting water.
Such a squizzling and squirtingjob as 'tis in your hands!
A few empty beehives were clustered around a nail in one corner, under which stood two or three barrels of new cider of the first crop, each bubbling and squirting forth from the yet open bunghole.
He ran with it to the side of the ship with the intention of squirting the old woman, who was swinging in midair and exhorting the six men who were dragging her to the deck.
Some one pulled the steward behind a ventilator and revived him by squirting him with water from the hose which he had tried to turn upon the old woman.
A white face at my feet heaved itself, as it seemed, out of the ground, and Kent scrambled back on to the road, squirting water from every seam.
The squirting noise of our steps advertised our presence a long way in the still night.
With the ignition switch OFF, prime the motor by squirting a little gasoline in each exhaust port and then turn the propeller backward two revolutions.
As each part is added to the assemblage care should be taken to insure adequate lubrication of all new points of bearing by squirting liberal quantities of cylinder oil upon them with a hand oil can or syringe provided for the purpose.
But compassion was a weakness of which no man could justly accuse this person, who, squirting a mouthful of dissolved tobacco upon me through the gratings, told me "I was a mutinous dog, and that I might die for anything he cared!
They could: and watch it all the way down, swallow a pin sometimes come out of the ribs years after, tour round the body changing biliary duct spleen squirting liver gastric juice coils of intestines like pipes.
Crouching by a patient cow at daybreak in the lush field, a witch on her toadstool, her wrinkled fingers quick at the squirting dugs.
Of course you can help squirting water on your sister!
Ah, many a merry night have we had in the clever little craft," quoth a third; and there was really a tolerable shedding of tears and squirting of tobacco juice.
He ran with it to the side of the ship with the intention of squirting on the old woman, who was swinging in midair and exhorting the six men who were dragging her to the deck.
He come up tame and squirting sewage like a dissolute porpoise, while I played him out where he'd get the thrash of the propeller.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squirting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
