Sentence examples for a spoil from inspiring English sources

A small mountain, a spoil heap estimated at 6,000 tonnes, stands waiting to be backfilled into the site.

Toulon did not bury Glasgow deep enough, and out popped the Scots in the second half to rescue a spoil.

Women who love football love it for its physicality; its bone-crunching tackles, the over-zealous attempt at a spoil that quickly turns into melee as tempers fray.

The Manchester Female Reformers flag, was put on display that evening in a shop on Oldham Road in the manner of a spoil of war.

His photographs of the tips and valleys around Aberfan were used extensively in national and international publications in 1966 when a spoil tip engulfed Pantglas junior school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

Of these investments, by far the most costly and important was one to produce synthetic nitrates for fertilizers through a process acquired from the Germans as a spoil of war.

The second test car, a spoil-yourself LTZ, had a 3.6-liter V-6 and six-speed automatic.

The brothers patented a spoil-resistant processed cheese, which was sold in great quantities to the U.S. Army during World War I.

He cannot fit everything in; take, for example, his brief but moving account of the Aberfan tragedy 20 years later, when 144 people, including 116 children in school at the time, were buried by a spoil-tip landslide.

For starters, this isn't a spoils system.

"It does seem like a spoiling tactic," he added.