[
US
/ˈpɔɹ/
]
[ UK /pˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /pˈɔː/ ]
VERB
-
supply in large amounts or quantities
We poured money into the education of our children -
move in large numbers
people were pouring out of the theater
beggars pullulated in the plaza -
flow in a spurt
Water poured all over the floor -
pour out
the sommelier decanted the wines -
rain heavily
Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside! -
cause to run
pour water over the floor
How To Use pour In A Sentence
- A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view. Very Little Drops Dead
- A liquor pour cost of 18.3%, for example, means that it cost a little more than 18 cents to generate a dollar of liquor sales.
- (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
- And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
- The pouring of pure water scented with jasmine oil washes away worries.
- On y remarque _Le Mât_ qui est une Colonne en forme de Mât, autour duquel se trouvent des echellons servant à monter pour developer les hanches et la poitrine; _les Colonnes_ ou piliers, exercice servant à mettre le corps droit. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
- Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno. Microsoft Soap - Set Up
- Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. The Titan
- Pour cider around the meat and cover with foil.
- A gob of crimson pouring from his lips, he spat it out, wiping the excess with the back of his hand.