Sentence examples for in spit of from inspiring English sources

But, in spit of this, this makes perfect sense, if we think of the brain as a computer.

Blink and another vacant lot in this spit of a neighborhood jutting into Upper New York Bay is occupied by a row of town houses.

There are just 250,000 of them living in Qatar, the spit of land in the Gulf that sits on top of the world's third largest deposits of natural gas.

Maldives, say my notes; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are in the Maldives, that spit of idleness in the Indian Ocean.

George, the Viscount Osborne, sharp and secret as a dagger in a doublet – the spit of his master in ambition, and his overlord in guile.

He grew up in the 1950s in Belle Harbor, a narrow spit of land on the outermost edge of New York City.

The island looks stunning from the air – a spit of sand in coral shallows –but life onshore is less glamorous.

You see, this Rodman is a spit of land in Eastchester Bay, not the flashy star of the N.B.A.

(On weeknights it offers more sedate enjoyment of its panoramic view of the Hudson River, in spitting distance of the Tappan Zee Bridge).

If Sam were alive today, he would have a net worth of $55 billion, in spitting distance of Gates' fortune.

That puts it ahead of the lifetime of Pixar's Brave (£22.2m) and in spitting distance of WALL-E (£22.9m).