Example sentences for: spat

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

  • was a penny-pincher, and Indians soon spotted — and spat out — its raw London gin tinctured with iodine to imitate French brandy.

  • When the fourpenny groat was introduced passengers handed that over and the cabbies were down twopence on each journey, so they nicknamed it Joey and frequently spat on it in disgust before pocketing it whenever one was given to them in payment.

  • The palms are said to have grown from stone spat out by Arab pirates during the first millennium, but today’s crops are not edible.

  • Washington enjoys nothing so much as a cat fight between friends, and last week's spat between Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and the Republican Senate was a doozy.

  • So much more, in fact, that I spat it out before I swallowed it.


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