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45 example sentences for SPOUT, such as:

1. The wound was still spouting blood.
2. Clear water spouted from the fountains.
3. It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.
4. The geyser spouted huge columns of water from the ground.
5. The firefighters spout water out of the pipe for more than 2 hours.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPOUT
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spout
 v.  throw out forcibly and abundantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; eject in a jet; utter magniloquently
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Indeed, his spout is so small that it is not very readily discernible.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he turned upon his back a corpse.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
3  The whale was now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of fright.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
4  It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
5  Nevertheless, the Fin-Back's spout is so similar to the Sperm Whale's, that by unskilful fishermen it is often mistaken for it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
6  But the Sperm Whale's food is far beneath the surface, and there he cannot spout even if he would.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
7  And as for this whale spout, you might almost stand in it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
8  Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
9  And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
10  Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
11  The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let this deadly spout alone.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
12  My hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
13  From this height the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
14  To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
15  But at last, some three points off the weather bow, Ahab descried the spout again, and instantly from the three mast-heads three shrieks went up as if the tongues of fire had voiced it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
Example Sentence:
1  The firefighters spout water out of the pipe for more than 2 hours.
2  Pseudo-intellectuals spout obscure verbiage to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.
3  Clear water spouted from the fountains.
4  The geyser spouted huge columns of water from the ground.
5  The first week, it spouted every five hours, but recently the interval is eight hours.
6  The wound was still spouting blood.