squirt
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At highway speeds, the sedan’s sharp reflexes and deep reserves of squirt create significant moral temptation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
A squirt of dish soap, a cup of hot water, a few pulses to loosen the worst of it—then a quick pass with a brush.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
Children use toy pistols and dispensers to squirt coloured water at their friends.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Unlike the sea squirt, both the lamprey and the frog produced many more versions of proteins from individual signaling output genes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
They found the squirt bottle in the stairwell with traces of latex glove dust, no fingerprints.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
“I had found my drink, my happy place,” said Benson, who over time perfected his order: seven pumps of chai concentrate, seven squirts of sugar-free vanilla syrup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The fossil did not match known features of sea squirts, sea anemones, or corals.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
You can also add a few squirts of TJ’s Sriracha Sauce, just before adding the seasoning packet, for a spicy kick.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
To construct a house, the Vulcan II squirts out layer after layer of the house’s walls onto the base.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 10, 2024
The man snorts and squirts a stream of brown saliva toward the great beast.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
After Willson Contreras and Lars Nootbaar greeted him with singles to put runners at the corners, Pozo squirted a two-out single over the infield to score pinch-runner Garrett Hampson for the go-ahead run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
Whipped cream squirted from an aerosol can is often called "skooshy cream" north of the border.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
They have contracting muscle bands, like those in the human throat, that pump water sucked from one side of the body and squirted out the other end to create thrust, Damian-Serrano said.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
The information contained in a paper return could be squirted over a modem as a series of 0’s and 1’s, obviating the need to kill trees and race to the post office.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024
Water squirted up through the cracks, tiny geysers until Alfhercht could press them back down.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
For days before his PortaSplit arrived, he had resorted to squirting water on his face to keep cool at home.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Frustrated locals have often staged protests around it, sometimes squirting tourists with water guns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
This revealed that the seed projection method of the squirting cucumber has been fine-tuned to ensure near-optimal dispersal and the success of the plant over generations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
But this time, the Lakers were too loose, the ball squirting free to trigger a three-on-one fastbreak for the Pistons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The sound of chatting, scissors snipping, and glue squirting is back to a five-out-of-ten range.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
