Example sentences for: poured

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

  • What had other translators done with this “sunny little psalm” that “has dried many tears and supplied the mould into which many hearts have poured their peaceful faith”?

  • At one point it poured 11 days straight "without a longer intermition than 2 hours at a time."

  • Eager to capitalize, the country poured its soul into mass tourism, which triggered a rash of indiscriminate building on the southern and eastern coastlines, with scant regard for tradition or aesthetics.

  • Established in the 18th century, the distillery still operates, and you can look through big windows at copper stills bubbling away, producing a hot, colorless spirit, which is poured over juniper berries to become gin.

  • Emphasising the UK's uneasiness about the EU's escalating enthusiasm for a regional science base, the Royal Society (the UK national academy of science) poured scorn on the ‘ambitious’ GDP target by noting how the UK alone would have needed an extra £11 billion in 2000, or more than 60% of total spending on R & D, to lift its ratio of 1.85% to the 3% target.


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