Sentence example with the word 'spurt'

spurt

a breath, clamber, ejaculation, flow, heavy right foot, lose no time, press on, shooting up, start up, uphill, well out

Definition n. the occurrence of a sudden discharge

Last update: August 8, 2016


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Water spurted out from the geyser.   [noun]

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The thief spurted out when he saw the watchman comming.   [verb]

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He make a spurt to catch the bus.   [verb]

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The main lava come out with a loud spurt.   [noun]

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Passing over the locomotor activity of zoospores (Pythium, Peronospora, Saprolegnia) we often find spores held under tension in sporangia (Pilobolus) or in asci (Peziza) until ripe, and then forcibly shot out by the sudden rupture of the sporangial wall under the pressure of liquid behind - mechanism comparable to that of a pop-gun, if we suppose air replaced by watery sap. Even a single conidium, held tense to the last moment by the elastic cell-wall, may be thus shot forward by a spurt of liquid under pressure in the hypha abstricting it (e.g.   [noun]

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Get a spurt on.   [verb]

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"Let's spurt a little," said Ned.   [verb]

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The sea, pouring into a narrow gully, forced air and water to spurt through an opening at certain intervals.   [noun]

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Then suddenly a shower of spray spurted from the aperture, the sunshine lighting it with all the prismatic colours of the rainbow.   [verb]

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Blood from an artery will be bright red and will probably spurt in jets.   [verb]

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"To return to our party," she said, in a lighter tone, for that spurt of jealousy had betrayed her into seriousness.   [verb]

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