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Poured


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pour

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If bitter, pour it out and measure 1.4 litres of water.
  • (2) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (4) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
  • (5) At later stages numerous degenerating parasites were seen and macrophage lysosomes were observed adhering to and pouring their contents into the parasite.
  • (6) Milk poured from higher (5-10cm above the cup) will sink beneath the surface.
  • (7) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
  • (8) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
  • (9) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
  • (10) Just this week, we heard the outrage pouring from many Americans over the crowning of an Indian Miss USA .
  • (11) For years Rupert Murdoch has poured his anti-BBC poison into the ears of his readers, viewers, and the politicians who pay him such assiduous court.
  • (12) When Trump had slept over at the family’s residence in upstate New York, Goldberg’s mother prepared breakfast for him in the morning and mistakenly poured salt instead of sugar all over their guest’s cornflakes.
  • (13) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
  • (14) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
  • (15) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
  • (16) Gerrard genuinely has postponed the issue while he pours his life into this tournament.
  • (17) Schemes employing solid media, such as the roll tube and pour plate methods, underestimated faecal contamination in shellfish tissue compared with a liquid MPN multiple test-tube method using minerals-modified-glutamate broth (MMGB) as primary enrichment medium.
  • (18) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
  • (19) Urine collected from young adult male rats was poured into the female's cage at 12:00h and the animals were sacrificed before and 1, 2, or 3 hours after the male urine was given.
  • (20) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.

Spout


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
  • (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
  • (v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
  • (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
  • (v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
  • (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
  • (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The spout was surrounded by a plastic ring which prevented more than one animal from drinking at any time.
  • (2) I blame my mother, whom my father called Blabbermouth, for training me up to spout what she called the Truth and what other people call telling the world everybody's private business.
  • (3) One hr following the competition test, each pair of animals was given access to a single unencumbered spout for a 1-hr period.
  • (4) If the solution which was previously used for establishing the conditioned taste aversion, appears in the drinking spout, the rat stops drinking after one or two licks.
  • (5) This situation was modelled in rats trained to lick at a retractable spout which was automatically withdrawn after termination of every lick but could be returned by pressing and releasing a lever placed 4 cm below the spout.
  • (6) The condition of hemorrhage immediately before the treatment with our technique was classified as spouting hemorrhage for 8 foci (3%), pulsating hemorrhage for 22 foci (9%), adhesion of clot for 179 foci (69%), and hemorrhage from veins and capillaries for 49 foci (19%).
  • (7) That intraoral intake and fluid ingestion via spout-licking (Weijnen et al., Brain Behav.
  • (8) The rats were also trained to obtain water from tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking spouts.
  • (9) Termination of a photoelectrically monitored lick started a computer controlled delay during which the spout was made inaccesible.
  • (10) I saw a large group of middle-aged people browsing sheets of paper pinned to camellia bushes spouting vivid pink blooms.
  • (11) Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief electric tail shocks in a test environment containing a rubber hose, response lever, and a water spout.
  • (12) The average length of the ileostomy spout was significantly longer in males without ileostomy problems (5.8 cm) than in males having leakage (3.7 cm).
  • (13) The results showed that animals injected with cholecystokinin, bombesin, and LiCl developed learned aversions to the milk and actively buried the milk spout with their bedding.
  • (14) She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct.
  • (15) as well as to kids wanting something to spout in the playground.
  • (16) In each experiment, independent fixed-ratio schedules were concurrently in effect at the two spouts.
  • (17) I think we should value that more in politics rather than just saying you've got to spout the party line.
  • (18) In the aftermath, the independent US military newspaper Stars & Stripes reported that Page was "steeped in white supremacy during his army days and spouted his racist views on the job as a soldier".
  • (19) The same would go for all variants on the statement, spouted with unchallenged frequency by so many people in western public life – the suggestion that they are always working, or that their work is incredibly exhausting.
  • (20) In Experiment 2, rats did not bury a milk spout until milk consumption was followed by toxicosis.

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