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spurting

[ US /ˈspɝtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /spˈɜːtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream

How To Use spurting In A Sentence

  • Blood was spurting from her nose.
  • The odd snorkel bobs in the water, occasionally spurting water, and there's not a boat to be seen.
  • Even the nimblest player would have trouble lasting a minute before the men were spurting pixelated blood. Times, Sunday Times
  • They may defend themselves by inflating the Body quickly and ( rarely ) spurting Blood from the eyes.
  • When I was able, I stood up and hobbled around; similar quantities of blood were spurting out of my knee as my scone.
  • The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. Essays: Second Series (1844)
  • By 8.40 am, water was spurting out of the hole at a rate of 200 litres a second.
  • But the contrary is obvious in arteriotomy and in wounds; for the blood spurting from the arteries escapes with force, now farther, now not so far, alternately, or in jets; and the jet always takes place with the diastole of the artery, never with the systole. Introduction
  • Blood was spurting out all over the place.
  • There was an almighty clank inside the mixer unit and boiling hot water started spurting out the sides and over the edge of the bath onto the floor.
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