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The phrase "a spit of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a small, narrow piece of land or a small amount of something, often in a geographical context.
Example: "The boat anchored near a spit of land that jutted out into the sea."
Alternatives: "a stretch of" or "a strip of".
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They've drifted toward a spit of rocks extending into the sea.
A little way upstream, villagers still wash down their packhorses on a spit of sand.
Arriving late, they came to the end of a spit of land.
On the westerly point of Coney Island is a spit of land known as Nortons Point.
It's a small white boxy house with just a spit of front yard.
Only a spit of sand separates it from the Atlantic Ocean.
The island looks stunning from the air – a spit of sand in coral shallows –but life onshore is less glamorous.
Even the island's V.I.P. visitor list seems outsized for a spit of land just five miles long.
On another side, on a spit of land opposite Hampton, sat Fortress Monroe, which had never fallen from Union hands.
You see, this Rodman is a spit of land in Eastchester Bay, not the flashy star of the N.B.A.
Caburé is a tiny fishing village on a spit of land where the river joins the sea.
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