: the quantity that spills: material lost or scattered by spilling
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The design of this travel mug helps prevent spillage.
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Food spillage can not only damage your oven, but causes smoke that impacts the flavor of your food and may spark an oven fire.—
Darcy Lenz,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026 And there was no significant spillage.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026 Jelly-like, three-dimensional pads contour the bra’s cups and provide a push-up effect, thus lifting and preventing spillage.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026 Stars officials said the fields’ floodlight poles will be 70 feet tall and designed to minimize light spillage and glare.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for spillage