spout
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Inside, the music continues: Grampy strips the knobs from his gas stove and connects the resulting length of pipe to a teapot’s spout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
I don’t like to spout clichés, but you do have to put your own oxygen mask on first in this situation.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
Social media created incentives for content creators to spout engagement-baiting nonsense.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2025
When tropical rains battered the building earlier this month, leaks seemed to spout from everywhere, said one 40-year-old man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
Jaysus, Molloy, come down off that spout or I’ll tell me mother.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
But he says he doesn’t think twice about what someone spouts behind a screen.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
During heavy rains, water spouts from the mouths of carved dragons on the corners of the roof.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The Bayesian sank near the town of Portofino on 19 August of last year during freak weather, with reports of water spouts.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
Sales of baby food pouches — soft bags with plastic spouts for easy consumption — have skyrocketed since 2010.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
Icy air spouts from four slotted squares above our heads, a reminder that this room was intended to preserve seeds.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic constantly spouted about the existential threat of artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
However, Hunga Tonga spouted an unusually high amount of water and low amount of cooling sulfur.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
The former president spouted off on Truth Social Thursday evening in response to the notification.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Mr Hancock tweeted that "disgusting and dangerous anti-semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023
Stephens remem-bered seeingjockeys in hill road-work attire gathering at a bowling alley, so lathered that sweat spouted from their shoes with each step.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
In the extraordinary abstraction that follows, Thatcher finds her ideal role as one of NWR’s stilted avatars, gussied up in couture and spouting riddles.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
About a third of local workers are employed in mining and construction, a category that includes oil, and many more jobs indirectly depend on the money spouting out of oil wells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
The scenes she has to work on the most are the ones where Morgan is spouting off facts, which are difficult to memorize and can’t sustain any improvisation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
The US space agency says its Voyager-1 probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth after months of spouting gibberish.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
She was pacing the floor, wringing her hands, her tears almost spouting from her eyes.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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