spit out

Example Sentences

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During testing, I ran into another maddening keyboard quirk, where I tapped the right letters but iOS spit out the wrong ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

But collective opinion is formed in a vacuum and spit out as gospel, and that’s not a fair way to approach movies.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

Here’s the detail that should make investors spit out their coffee: China’s solar capacity factor, according to the Atlantic Council, stood at just 14.7% in 2023, compared to 23.3% in the United States.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

It can help people who don’t know how to talk about themselves cobble a few sentences together about their hobbies or spit out some ideas to replace “Bios aren’t my thing.”

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026

She spit out the words fast, sending them hurtling toward me like photons from the sun, and I didn’t see them coming until they blinded me.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson