Verb (used without object) : The runners spurted forward in the last lap of the race. From Dictionary.com.
Starbucks (SBUX) has had enough complaints about coffee spurting from the sip holes in its lids to do something about it. From Wordnik.com. [Ad Track: Starbucks splash stick says no to sploshing] Reference
A combination of my overabundant milk production "spurting" would not be an inaccurate description, and his being a bit tongue-tied. From Wordnik.com. [No Shame] Reference
The lad saw the blood spurting from an ugly wound. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa] Reference
The blood quickly was spurting from his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
You yourself are a love-spurting nature, little Bellmaus. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
In the warm blood that was spurting from a wound above his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
There it lay, still spurting water out on the thick, green grass. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store] Reference
Percy tottered up, blood spurting from his nose, his head spinning. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
"Don't shoot, Jennie!" he gasped, the blood spurting from his wound. From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
He dug this out with his knife-point, and the water began spurting in. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
But I was shocked by the image of blood spurting from Donald's wrists. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
A spurting red stream fountained from his neck; an artery had been hit. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Freddie had dropped it, and the water was spurting out in a solid stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
But a quick look over the tank failed to show a spurting stream of gasoline. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Trail] Reference
In cases of spurting a little added alcohol will carry the water off quietly. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
The lines were unreeled, attached to the hydrants, and were soon spurting water. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
Headless bodies are stumbling out of a restaurant, blood spurting from the necks. From Wordnik.com. [Fearless John Callahan pushed boundaries of taste and humor with his art] Reference
He sprang to one side, and, naturally, forgot all about the spurting hose he held. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference
There are a lot of exploding heads and blood-spurting limbs, a lot of goo and gore. From Wordnik.com. [Tarantino Is Undead] Reference
And then she, too, had to stop talking, for the hose was spurting water at her now. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
The ragged stump of his thumb was softly spurting blood in time with his heartbeat. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
A whimpering cry, the spurting of the blood, and the face began to take on the waxen tint. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
"You barefaced, low-bred thing!" cried Ch'iu Wen, turning towards her and spurting in her face. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But the effort was too much for her, and she sank back, the blood spurting freshly from the wound. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
They saw the wagon, drawn at a trot, disappear down the road, the mud spurting out from the wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
As the tank filled, other men worked the handles and a stream of water was soon spurting on the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
He had taken up the hose where Freddie had dropped it, and the water was spurting out in a solid stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
And, all about the kitchen was spurting a stream of water, while over by the stove stood Freddie's toy fire engine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
Drayton arose warily, the blood spurting from a nasty cut over the eye, where the heel of the other's glove had scraped. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
The Bobbsey twins were so intent on spurting the water that they did not observe the principal until he was close to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
Of course the little boy could not see the water spurting from the hose, as that was happening inside the burning building. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in Washington] Reference
One of Mr. Callahan's cartoons shows headless bodies streaming out of a restaurant with blood spurting from their severed necks. From Wordnik.com. [Acerbic and irreverent cartoonist John Callahan dies at 59] Reference
But Johan's victory came not a second too soon, for just at that moment Lindley's sword dropped from his hand, the blood spurting from. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
If you have seen too many movies, you may expect spurting blood as the abdomen is opened, but usually there is none. From Wordnik.com. [What Hands Can Do] Reference
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