spoil

Pantglas Junior School and surrounding houses in the village near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, were catastrophically engulfed in coal slurry after the colliery spoil tip collapsed on 21 October 1966.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Fixating on my fishing rod, I had allowed the idling machine to bottom out in the shell spoil, some of which got sucked into the intake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

That ending, which I won’t spoil here, is where the film most often divides.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Because now he can spoil pitches, and he’s staying in at-bats longer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

“If I write the word ‘Terrific’ with sticky thread,” she thought, “every bug that comes along will get stuck in it and spoil the effect.”

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

But however the spoils are divided, Morgan and Carla will continue to live at a level at which the word “comfortable” has no real meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Plump yourself on the spoils of would-be gardeners.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

"Today we woke up to no electricity. A lot of food spoils, but as long as they have the opportunity to learn, we make sacrifices," said Chiu.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

This dishonesty spoils the story and replicates the Bundists’ ideological vanity, minus their heroism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

He even insisted on buying scutten for Simmon and Wilem, saying that patrons have some claim to the spoils of victory as well.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

"If it were not for the war, she would still be a young girl spoiled by her father. She would be going to school," Zuhair adds.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

For one, I believe audiences should know exactly what they are paying for, and two, I do not think “The Pineapple” can be properly spoiled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

When I casually revealed the answer to my husband, he shook his head, wishing I hadn’t spoiled it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

That view, unlike a similar one in Spain would be, is not yet spoiled by parasols and day-trippers’ detritus.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Yes, he did. He spoiled us all the time.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Tour de France fans were spoilt for choice in Paris when it came to drinking in the drama of cycling's greatest race.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Cher Horowitz was the lovably spoilt, fashion-obsessed Beverly Hills high school girl we took to our hearts in the 1995 teen film Clueless.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025

“We are spoilt for choice. We like our meat as meat, and our fish as fish.”

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024

If you're spoilt for choice with high quality new releases, you're "eatin' good".

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024

“An old dear like me being able to handle three spoilt Pollyannas ‘amazingly.’”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Hundreds of French supermarkets have been hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

For entertainment journalists who watch everything, spoiling surprises is a casualty of the job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

But at the risk of spoiling anyone’s vicarious glee, he also won’t be back for season 2.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

San José came close to spoiling the party for the Galaxy early on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Then they tried to get up without spoiling the marks they made when they fell.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder