Sentence examples for spill from inspiring English sources

The word "spill" is correct and usable in written English.
It has multiple meanings. For example, The children spilled their snacks all over the carpet. or The oil spill ruined the beach.

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spill

verb

To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

  • I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.

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In what has been described as a "spill and fill" internally, 50 regional content manager jobs have been declared redundant and another 52 chief of staff positions created.

Gambaro said she would raise concerns at the Liberal party room meeting next week – coinciding with the resumption of parliament and a push by other MPs for a spill motion against Abbott.

To get a feel for how GPI differs from GDP, imagine two heating-oil trucks leaving from the same utility company: one safely completes its deliveries and the other has a major oil spill on the way to its first customer.

But, as chief executives sometimes discover (BP's Tony Hayward stayed on his yacht as the Gulf oil spill spread), being too "chillaxed" can be fatal to a career.

Indeed, "in our busy lives, almost all of us have to walk with a cup [and] often we spill the drink" (more first world problems).

I love the idea of ideas, and the promise of order and logic applied to a subject which, when viewed from the political lobby, seems too often a matter of naked ambition reinforced by a willingness to spill blood.

My favorite explanation of this one is that evil spirits live in the hair and spill out of the hat when it's taken off and obviously evil spirits make for some treacherous bedmates.

Indeed, this is not the first time that events in north Africa have threatened to spill over into France.

The company was "confident" such an event as the leach tank spill would not happen again.

BP might have been expected to join a merger wave as a buyer but it is still weighed down by legal battles in the US from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

Pilkington, who has written extensively on young people and the far right, said young people had been hit particularly hard in the downturn and it was very easy for valid economic concerns, over issues such as housing and jobs, to spill over into antipathy towards immigrant communities and foreigners.

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