Sentence examples for the spilling from inspiring English sources

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the spilling

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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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The costs also include efforts to contain the spilling crude oil, continuing work to drill a relief well and settlements.

But while the previous novel had no Pakistani characters, this one traces the spilling over of the Afghan war into its neighbour.

Occasional details — like the spilling coffee in "Café" — also enliven the prevailing geometry, as do her subtle, slightly bleached-out palette, feeling for surprisingly real light and careful attention to different surface treatments.

I never thought I'd change my opinion about the spilling piles of paper, magazines and other random things my mom kept all around the house.

These plots further reveal that the fluorescence readings generated by later cycles do not conform well to the LRE model, as reflected by the "spilling" of points off of the LRE line.

Many had been trying to collect the spilling petrol.

The spilling over begins early on "Endlessly," her follow-up, with "My Boy".

"Let's find it first before we worry about the spilling," she said, realism and severity returning.

A squadron of grounded seagulls scavenged gracefully at the spilling dustbins.

The spilling of so much recent blood has widened the gulf.

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When people say "There is no use crying over spilled milk," they presumably mean that there is nothing anybody can do now about the spilled milk; the spilling of the milk is outside the realm of our causal control.

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