Sentence examples for try to pour from inspiring English sources

You can try to pour it into a glass, but it's easier to eat with a spoon.

And if they maintain control of the Senate, they might try to pour more resources into supporting the law.

To stop the flow of liquid toward the computer's innards, flip it over and try to pour the coffee out of the keys.

We always try to pour oil on troubled waters and get people to share a common vision of where they want to get to and how they're going to get there.

He is the careful, stolid presence who often appears in ghost stories to try to pour cold water on the idea of supernatural presences – only to stoke the flames higher in readers' minds.

And we all know what happens when you try to pour Niagara Falls into a whiskey glass -- it rips the glass out of your hand, and then it takes off your arm.

He first tried to pour sugar into his green tea.

Administration officials quickly tried to pour cold water on the proposal.

When I tried to pour it down the sink, the drain rejected it.

Stage hands can occasionally be glimpsed heroically trying to pour her into a red cat suit.

When she tried to pour the grains into a measuring cup, pellets flew across the countertop and onto the floor.