spilling
Example Sentences
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On summer evenings, the streets are thronged with people spilling out onto the sidewalk to enjoy a pint and take a rare break from complaining about the weather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
That was from the water spilling over a dirt road, not from internal erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He looked at more than 350 storm overflow outlets in England and whether there had been heavy rain when they were spilling sewage.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But by the time the bicentennial rolled around, my life had played out against the backdrop of civil unrest and the Vietnam War, both spilling from our black-and-white television almost nightly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He never paused, the words spilling like overheated water from a beaker.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
