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How to use spout in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Spout means a tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. Example: “I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”

Examples of spout by meaning

nounA tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

  • I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
  • I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap

nounA stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

  • A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood, page 160

verbTo gush forth in a jet or stream.

  • Water spouts from a hole.

verbTo eject water or liquid in a jet.

  • The whale spouted.

verbTo pawn; to pledge.

  • to spout a watch

More sentences with spout

  • That idea of yours for using the church hall seems to have gone up the spout.From the entry up the spout
  • Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to spout their takes on the hot topics of the day.From the entry friend
  • The spouting was filled with leaves and needed cleaning.From the entry spouting
  • The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.From the entry itsy-bitsy
  • I think the left speaker is up the spout.From the entry up the spout
  • The pan had a juglike spout.From the entry juglike
  • But normies are always spouting stuff like Oh man, school is such a drag.2017 [2011], Wataru Watari, translated by Jennifer Ward, My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected, volume 3, Yen Press, →ISBN. From the entry normiedom
  • Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry gob stick
  • Hoffman or the seemingly random collection of people he allows to spout off on camera.2012 August 16, Neil Genzlinger, “Analyzing History Before the Dust Settles”, in The New York Times. From the entry get-off-my-lawn
  • Bottles also usually incorporate a fitment, which provides a pouring spout.2009, Uri Tsoler, Handbook of Detergents, volume 121, page 300. From the entry fitment
  • The beer was finally poured through a sieve into a spouted jar, from which it was decanted.2006, Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta, page 292. From the entry spouted
  • The beakiness of the spout reciprocates the beakiness of the bird.1985, Peter Dormer, Alison Britton, David Cripps, Alison Britton: a view, page 15. From the entry beakiness
  • Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool!1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667. From the entry porcelainize
  • Full of bullies shamefully spouting harmful tips and this constant sense of superiority coming from all of them.2022, Remington M. Valdivia, quoting a Redditor, Unmuted: An intersectional approach to Latinx women with eating disorders (thesis)…. From the entry edtwt
  • Intending to tease out Shona’s know-it-all nature by spouting off some trivia, I googled the Pala d’Oro on my phone.2021, Traci Andrighetti, chapter 9, in Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries; 7), Limoncello Press, →ISBN. From the entry tomato
  • Toxotid and anabantid fish from Southeast Asia project spouts of water toward prey above the surface of the water .2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals. From the entry anabantid
  • Our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney.2007 May 8, Patrick Buchanan, “Jamestown as It Never Was”, in RealClearPolitics, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021. From the entry globaloney
  • Place drinking water in the reservoir, and test the functionality of the lick spouts with a paper towel.2006, Minoru Fukuda, Functional Glycomics, page 72. From the entry lick spout
  • Kind of like the spouting of the opposition party.2006 August 1, Rose Melinis, “Wikipedia: Cyberbullying”, in soc.culture.filipino (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2025. From the entry Wackipedia
  • What we saw was cute-'n'-cuddly Willow, takin' care of her girl and spouting nauseating platitudes like "You're my always."2001 May 6, Lord Usher, “I hate Willow. ("Tough Love" spoilers)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec…. From the entry always
  • Ann: black-haired and wenchish in her bosomy softness, but compact and clean as a spring spouting from sand.1994, Janice Daugharty, Going Through the Change, page 32. From the entry wenchish
  • A dozen men in good suits and women in silk dresses will circulate smoothly among the reporters, spouting confident opinions.1984 October 21, “The Debate and the Spin Doctors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry spin doctor
  • Happily I flounder about, terrifying the minnows, and float on my back and spout cheekfuls of water at the sun.1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone…. From the entry cheekful
  • Cars with individual loading hatches have to be respotted several times, depending on length, and have their loading spout relocated.1963, Railway Purchases and Stores - Volume 56, page 27. From the entry respot
  • The blues were eating leisurely, swimming about and opening their great mouths, spouting and filling their enormous stomachs with intense satisfaction.1934, Alan Villiers, Whalers of the Midnight Sun: […], New York, N.Y.; London: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 154. From the entry a
  • The spouts are a rare effect which occurs when too much water rushes into a dropshaft and traps air that’s normally vented.2022 September 12, Patty Wetli, “Chicago Dries Out From Intense Deluge. ‘We Don’t See Rainfall Rates That High’”, in WTTW, archived from…. From the entry dropshaft
  • Groups of horned devils dance through the streets, brandishing tridents that spout fireworks and generally flouting every safety rule in the book.2013, Time Out Barcelona, 15th edition, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry correfoc
  • Ram’s descent plays out against a backdrop of New York as Palookaville, full of free-floating hostility and natives who spout movie-bred clichés.2012 September 7, Rachel Saltz, “Living in a Material World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Palookaville
  • Boston seemed to have blown it, especially as he spouted nervous nerdisms like “You need Ritalin” in response to Chance’s practiced baiting.2007 January 15, Virginia Heffernan, “He-Men Strut Stuff to Romance New York”, in New York Times. From the entry nerdism
  • Well, sir, there he was standing up spouting a lot of tripe and onions and Miss Seeton was taking the odd note.1971, Heron Carvic, Witch Miss Seeton, page 59. From the entry tripe and onions
  • The tubular spout, however, may be a misrestoration of an open or bridge-spout which would place the bowl in Type 7B .1962, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, page 27. From the entry misrestoration
  • Do you dispute that there are plenty of Asatruar out there who can spout List at the drop of a rune, who couldn’t tell Þrymskviða from Vafþrúðnismál?1998 June 11, “rorik”, alt.religion.asatru (Google group): Discarding The Eddas (was:Re: Asatru/Norse Paganism). From the entry Þrymskviða
  • The early settlers either boxed the tree or cut large slanting gashes, from the lower end of which a rudely fashioned spout conducted the sap to a bucket.1918 April, F. L. B., “The Maple Sugar Industry”, in Forest Leaves, volume XVI, number 8 (number 184 overall), Philadelphia, Pa.…. From the entry box
  • It is composed of a container vase for the oil, a spout for the wick decorated with a chevet illustrating Ganesh and an illuminated handle of the pentacephalous snake ânanda.2021, Anna Westin, Eric Piffret, “Old large Sukunda cult oil lamp decorated with a representation of Ganesh - Bronze - Nepal - 19th…. From the entry pentacephalous

Meaning of spout

  1. noun A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
  2. noun A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
  3. noun A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

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Questions about spout in a sentence

How do you use spout in a sentence?
Spout is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”
What is a short sentence with spout?
“The whale spouted.”
What does spout mean?
Spout means a tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

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