Example sentences for: poured

How can you use “poured” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has become as repetitious, pontificating, and slothful as the worst D.C. pundit--as ridiculous as the political reporters he mocked in Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 . Thompson poured acid on Nixon because he honestly believed Nixon was a devil.

  • The main reason, Broder reports, seems to be the huge amount of money--nearly $20 million--unions have poured into anti-226 ads.

  • At night underground I imagine him nearby somewhere, long limbs caught quickfrozen in a runner's pose, fingers reaching, hard as marble-- I am poured out, O Lord, poured out like water --all night I dream him in that posture of longing, held and stilled beneath the motion and the industry, the unimaginable weight of our living world.

  • The thousands of volunteers who poured into the earthquake zone will not easily forget the power they were able to mobilize."

  • When I had at last poured over the two lists— the one, so much too brief; the other, so much too wrong— you could have knocked me over with a fender!


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