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How to use squirt in a sentence

34 example sentences · noun, verb

Squirt means an instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. Example: “Hey squirt! Where you been?”

Examples of squirt by meaning

nounA small, quick stream; a jet.

  • a squirt of body lotion
  • Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.2007, Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0, page 9

nounA burst of noise.

  • As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.2011, Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop

nounAn annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.

  • He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face.1946, Robert Penn Warren, All the King′s Men, published 2005, page 606

nounA small child.

  • Hey squirt! Where you been?

nounAn act of urination.

  • Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.

verbTo be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.

  • The toothpaste squirted from the tube.

verbTo cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.

  • It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.1985, The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia′s Most Deadly Creatures, Murdoch Books, published 2002...
  • Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child′s mouth.2011, James Balch, Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures, unnumbered page

verbTo emit, eject, or excrete (something).

  • They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in.2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times

More sentences with squirt

  • And I mean coffee gives me the squirts.” “Oh, I know it does.2018 September 30, Doc Hammer, “The Forecast Manufacturer” (13:45 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 7, episode 9, spoken by…. From the entry the squirts
  • His nose starts squirting blood right before I kick him square in the twig and giggle berries.2008, Stephanie Hale, Twisted Sisters, Berkley JAM, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry giggle berries
  • "First thing was, he got the squirts." "The squirts?" Wayne clamped his fingers around his nose.2007 July 10, Steve Yarbrough, “Section 40”, in The End of California, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry the squirts
  • The squirt was hitting 25-foot jumpers handedly, although she wasn't one for that whole dribbling thing.2004, Michael Hilburn, Travel Diary, Bolivia, Trafford Publishing, illustrated, page 75. From the entry handedly
  • She squirted in some liquid soap with an elbowy throwing motion.1992, Walter Kirn, chapter 5, in She Needed Me, New York: Pocket Books, page 43. From the entry elbowy
  • She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit.1991, Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry kim
  • Hot butter squirted, by a quaint device, out of the bloodcoloured pudding.1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 2, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, pages 157–158. From the entry embuttered
  • Then dark blood squirts from a little hole in Sergeant Gerheim's chest.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry skivvy
  • Men with the rippers give a double squirt at your window.1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 131. From the entry pineapple
  • But if the Goddess chose to help you by giving Miss Hoover the Hershey squirts, such is her divine wisdom.2009 November 29, “Rednecks and Broomsticks”, in The Simpsons, season 21, episode 7, spoken by Gwendolyn Nightshadow (Neve Campbell). From the entry Hershey squirts
  • The sand whiting feeds on nippers, pipis, prawns and especially beach, squirt or blood worms and all these make terrific baits.2006, Frank Prokop, Australian Fish Guide, 3rd edition, page 154. From the entry pipi
  • A few squirts of WD40 in the bindings, a shlurp of wax on the bases, and into the cupboard they go.1999 May 11, Richard Walsh, quoting Anthea, “The sheep in the living room”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry shlurp
  • He possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night.1926 April 19, “Miscellany”, in Time. From the entry squirt gun
  • This was after the Hail Mary pass caught as time expired, after the game-clinching fumble that squirted out of the end zone in overtime.2024 October 4, John Branch, “What Does College Football Have to Do With College?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Hail Mary pass
  • My husband and I squirt on hand-sanitiser from a dispenser inside the door but beyond that it all feels pretty much like a normal Sunday.2020 July 8, Liz Boulter, “We're at a pub – and staying the night! A post-lockdown break in the Derbyshire dales”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry hand-sanitiser
  • As I spend 10 minutes debating what to order, a kid nearby entertains himself by squirting free edamame beans across the restaurant.2019 March 22, OC Weekly, volume 24, number 30, Orange County, California: Duncan McIntosh Company, published 20 March 2019, page 20. From the entry Kobe
  • I tore my mayonnaise packet open with my teeth, squirted it on the bun, and skooshed it around to coat the alleged patty.2012, Lisa Harkrader, The Adventures of Beanboy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry skoosh
  • The base of her electric toothbrush fell onto its side as she yanked a little too hard and squirted on a blob of Colgate.2012, Linda Joffe Hull, The Big Bang, page 13. From the entry Colgate
  • 'Cause those supplements are givin' me the squirts like you would not believe.” “Oh, man, I would kill for your bowel movements right now.2008 October 30, Scott Marder & Rob Rosell, “Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack” (14:51 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia…. From the entry blocked up
  • I leaned over the eye washer, which was really just a modified drinking fountain with two squirt devices aimed towards each other.2003, Mark Owen, “1:30”, in First Chance: A Suspense Novel, Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry eye washer
  • The cloudy windows that have inspired complaints from riders on social media for several years need more than a squirt of window cleaner and a wipe down.2022 October 10, Larry Higgs, The Star-Ledger. From the entry wipedown
  • That poster’s favorite emojipasta, he said, is the one that takes a chunk of dialogue from Todd Phillips’s Joker and fills it in with clowns and squirt guns.2020 January 24, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Divine Origins of the Horny Chain Text”, in The Atlantic. From the entry emojipasta
  • An internal-gear hub with a hollow axle may be re-oiled by removing the pushrod or indicator spindle and squirting oil into the end of the axle.2000, 2008, “Internal-Gear Hubs”, in Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2019. From the entry pushrod
  • If you think of it as a stage dinosaur from when people worried about who sang a song best rather than whose song it was, you're a young squirt.1990 June 17, John Flautz, “'Oklahoma!' Rousing at Shawnee”, in The Morning Call. From the entry foof

Meaning of squirt

  1. noun An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
  2. noun A small, quick stream; a jet.
  3. noun The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.

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Questions about squirt in a sentence

How do you use squirt in a sentence?
Squirt is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Hey squirt! Where you been?”
What is a short sentence with squirt?
“Hey squirt! Where you been?”
What does squirt mean?
Squirt means an instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.

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