pour on

Example Sentences

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It has a special sauce that you pour on top of it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

As customers “derive value from well-understood business cases, they’ll continue to invest in more innovation as we pour on the R&D,” McDermott said.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 29, 2025

Would they pour on to the streets in protest?

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

Uruguay exploited the man advantage to pour on 14 points.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Her moans echoed through the stairwell, and we rushed out of our apartments to calm her at once, bearing palm fans and sugar cubes, and tumblers of refrigerated water to pour on her head.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri