Sentence examples for like spitting from inspiring English sources

It's like spitting on your background".

It's like spitting on the sidewalk.

That would be like spitting into the ocean.

"It seems like spitting in the face of the people who made them," she told me.

Trying to suppress those rights in the Internet age is like spitting in the wind".

"It is like spitting in the wind, to put out expensive classified advertising," he said.

"It's like — as I said to Sen. Portman at one point, it's like spitting in the ocean," he said.

"As he was saying it, he was like spitting a little bit," Mr. Dopp told the investigators.

"To put a principal totally unimmersed in the culture seems like spitting in their eye," he said.

Annoyance at close quarters is expressed by bill-clicking and cat-like spitting, and a defensive posture involves lowering the head, ruffling the back feathers, fanning the tail and spreading the wings.

Furthermore, many people who received summonses for small offenses like spitting or littering felt that having to go to court was a penalty that far outweighed their mental model of the violation's seriousness.