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pouring

[ UK /pˈɔːɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. flowing profusely
    a gushing hydrant
    pouring flood waters

How To Use pouring 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
  • The pouring of pure water scented with jasmine oil washes away worries.
  • 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
  • A gob of crimson pouring from his lips, he spat it out, wiping the excess with the back of his hand.
  • As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
  • And then, in the pouring rain, a half-dozen supporters stood around waiting for the media to show up.
  • The letters began pouring in, giving me a broader picture of this phenomenon.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain, or a combination of these.
  • The speaker had, finally, demonstrated the synthesis of hippuric acid and sulphate of phenol in the excided kidney as a function of its cells, by adding to the blood pouring through the kidney, in the first place, benzoic acid and glycol; in the second place, phenol and sulphate of soda. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
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