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Example sentences for: spills
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The Wall Street Journal spills a lot of ink on tobacco, with pieces about trial lawyers' pursuit of anti-tobacco cases, the attempt by the anti-asbestos lobby to tap into any settlement deal, and the political spin on the pending Senate bill.
"The Japanese Want Your Guns": A sadistic Japanese prison guard bear deliberately spills a cup of water just out of reach of a very thirsty Brasco on the floor of his cell.
For dessert she has gâteau and a sorbet and he has marrons glacés, though, as he is rather guache, he commits a gaffe by eating them with his fingers and then spills most of them on his serviette.
As the curtain closes and applause spills across the footlights, the message is reiterated: "Cotton has never moved like this"--as swiftly to harvest, or across a stage.
Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.