How to Use spew in a Sentence

spew

verb
  • The dog spewed vomit on the rug.
  • Exhaust spewed out of the car.
  • The volcano spewed hot ash.
  • Smoke and ashes spewed from the volcano.
  • The faucet started spewing dirty water.
  • Heavy black and white smoke was spewing from the mansion.
    Mauricio Maldonado, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • One house even had a machine on the lawn that spewed out fake snow, which was so cool!
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The oak trees around us are spewing acorns like bullets from a Gatling gun.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Sarah's the first to spew vomit, with Danny not far behind.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The outline of a frightening head seems to spew bodies into the sea.
    Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Nor does the size of an A.I.’s training dataset keep it from spewing hateful content.
    Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But the First Amendment is not a license to spew malicious lies and falsehoods.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Video shows fountains of bright-orange molten rock spewing from fissures in the ground up to 260 feet into the air.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The explosions spewed massive amounts of methane into the Baltic Sea.
    Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Sheila Davis, 62, complained that each morning, her faucet would spew colors that went from brown to green to yellow to clear.
    Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Pulsars are the dead cores of the heaviest stars, which spew out jets of light and spin unbelievably fast.
    Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • One of the leaks is spewing water 30 feet in the air like a geyser and losing the city as much as one million gallons a day, Ms. Hillman said.
    Sarah Fowler, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • During the initial eruption, fountains of lava spewed from fissures in the Earth.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Video showed lava spewing from fissures at the crater’s base, but the activity was confined to the crater.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The politicians who won’t budge on gun laws spew platitudes or stay silent until the latest wave of outrage ebbs.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
  • Wrong for not only spewing hate on the internet but also having to deal with it irl..
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Would a comic this perceptive really step off the stage and spew hatred for its own sake?
    TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Fields glow kryptonite-green against volcanic black soil, while not-so-distant mountains smoke and spew hot red lava above the heads of hardy sheep.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The whales swim upward in a spiral, spewing bubbles all the way, then lunge into the center of the column to grab an enormous mouthful of krill.
    Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Reports of Tijuana sewage spewing into the South County region go back at least to the 1930s.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • On Fox News, and in the larger right-wing media universe, the degrading comments Watters was said to have spewed onstage are par for the course.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 June 2023
  • Kaleo, an Icelandic band, performed a live acoustic gig in 2021 with the lava spewing in the background.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • To make matters worse, mainstream media outlets go out of their way to spread the ignorance that these activists spew.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • But as the Utah team noted, fires spew tons of fine particulate pollution as well.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Clothing makers waste tons of water and spew out 10 percent of all the heat-trapping carbon emissions on the planet.
    Brad Wieners and Lisa Jhung, Men's Health, 11 July 2022

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