[ UK /spˈa‍ʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈspaʊt/ ]
VERB
  1. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
  2. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
    water gushed forth
NOUN
  1. an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
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How To Use spout In A Sentence

  • Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
  • People are always spouting off with definitive answers about what design is… except that everyone has a different take on it.
  • They spout rubbish and sit back while energy firms run riot. The Sun
  • For spouts of wild fury dashed up into the clouds; and the shore, wherever any sight of it was left, weltered in a sadly frothsome state, like the chin of a Titan with a lather-brush at work. Mary Anerley
  • Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
  • Is there a handy dustbin or a down-spout that will assist the thief to climb on to the roof?
  • The hot vapour spouted from a rusted pipe.
  • What another spout of hot air that is. The Sun
  • A waterspout occurs over water; a tornado is its equivalent over land.
  • • Extensions and splash pads were placed on eavestrough downspouts. Canadian Underwriter : Headline News
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