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US
/ˈspaʊtɪŋ/
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[ UK /spˈaʊtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /spˈaʊtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
How To Use spouting In A Sentence
- Ishmael would speak for them at midcentury in Moby Dick, as he dismissed learned commentary on cetology, called on Jonah and seamen with callused hands for support and declared the whale a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story
- People are always spouting off with definitive answers about what design is… except that everyone has a different take on it.
- To the north they could see icebergs, and to the south the spouting of whales. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
- He's perfect as a camp hard-ass, spouting absurd rhetoric in his gravelly voice while depriving the inmates of the necessities of life.
- Lamely suave, spouting banalities about pop music and unconscious of his savage condescension toward women, he's a rancid summation of the Playboy ethic.
- Of all the drivel you've been spouting ,'said Jou - chia , " that's the one thing worth hearing.
- This won't stop ministers spouting nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
- All I have is an overweight, overbeaten housewife spouting GOP nonsense and saying that a woman can't have a career AND a kid. Sound Politics: Darcy Burnocchio
- The nearer we come, the loftier is the spouting water. Voyage au centre de la terre. English
- Other features include fire-spouting volcanoes, a shark-infested aquarium and leopard-skin furniture. The Sun