Sentence examples for spill millions from inspiring English sources

The river crested at 21.2 feet on September 26, inundating homes and businesses around the city, and even causing the city's water treatment plant to spill millions of gallons of wastewater into the surrounding environment.

Yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency said it was suspending the company from new contracts with the U.S. government until it can prove that it really, really wants to not spill millions of gallons of oil into the ocean, or something.

In the case of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill millions of gallons (1 U.S. gal = 3.79 L) of dispersant was used both on the surface and at the leaking wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.

Although its music reviews now include embedded links to audio files so that critics do not have to spill hundreds of words describing what a guitar sounds like, the man who replaced Mr. Kinsley believes that the Web's inherent publishing opportunities are, for the time being, more prosaic.

It also settled suits that accused it of spilling millions of gallons of oil from its pipelines into waters and wetlands in six states.

One culprit is "nurdles", the raw plastic pellets shipped around the world for manufacturing, easily lost during transportation (in 2012 a typhoon spilled millions from a ship in Hong Kong).

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in April killed 11 workers and spilled millions of barrels of oil over several months.

The suit alleged that Texaco discharged more than 18 billion gallons of waste water into rivers and streams, burned millions of cubic meters of natural gas without proper emissions controls and spilled millions of gallons of crude oil directly into the earth, polluting the region's only sources of water, sickening inhabitants and even contributing to the extinction of one small tribe, the Tetete.

And this month the industry's biggest lie -- that it can be trusted with our water -- is once again on display as another mining disaster has spilled millions of gallons of toxic mining waste and chemicals into our streams, rivers and lakes.

This month the industry's biggest lie -- that it can be trusted with our water -- is once again on display as another mining disaster has spilled millions of gallons of toxic mining waste and chemicals into our streams, rivers and lakes.

On Web message boards players had spilled hundreds of thousands of words debating what the new Alliance race would be.