Example sentences for: spoil

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

  • It was designed and built so as not to spoil the skyline or compete with the temples and it cannot be seen from the streets of the city or from the sacred way as you enter through the Propylaia.

  • Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.

  • Why not spoil the speculators' game by giving them nothing to speculate about--by replacing pesos and reis with portraits of George Washington (or, if you happen to be European, with generic pictures of bridges and gates--for more on European currency design, see 1997 Slate piece)?

  • I won't spoil the coda by revealing it here, but it's the kind of coup that only movies can bring off and, watching it, I shed my first unashamed tears in nearly a year of filmgoing.

  • His language is notable mostly for the oniony taste of Yiddish, when it is appropriate: "Who comes on Friday night to a man that he has guests, to spoil him his supper?"


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