; spitting
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Examples of spit in a Sentence
Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
From the early to mid 2000s, the now 24-year-old was spitting out rap verses and creating content on platforms like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook.
—Zoya Hasan, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
If the smart machine detects anything weird, a suspicious roast is spit out the side.
—Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
From Austin to Shanghai his plants are spitting out parts and combining components to produce his myriad product lines.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
YouTube's new Dream Track AI music generation tool for creators can spit out novel songs in the style of existing artists, in this case Charlie Puth.
—WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
The operation’s thrumming heart beats in Building One, where machines, rotating at high speeds, spit out as many as 1,200 rifle cartridges per minute.
—Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
Editor’s picks After an opening sequence set during the war — with Shea Whigham spitting his usual fire as Bass’ mean drunk of an owner, George — Lawmen keeps leaping forward in time.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
Her grandmother Zahra, an old crone of a woman who cruelly spits out words to demean her daughter and granddaughter with little regard for their feelings, had always forbid them.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
Some of those pursuing it are just casually curious, happy to see an electronic green leaf ping to life, or to throw down some spit into the 23andMe saliva kit.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Where the spit landed is important to how prosecutors could have charged the case.
—Agreen, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
There are several perilous sequences in which animals try to hurt or chase one another, plus characters are nearly pushed out of a plane’s door or killed by a termite’s acidic spit.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
That would be the spit heard from around the world.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
Some tried and failed to turn it into a drug, most didn’t even get that far, and almost no one saw the gila monster spit coming.
—Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
If the giant vats of bubbling caldo de res don’t impress you, the indoor spit just might.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
That information also automatically gets ingested into the corporate databases used to train generative AI tools and can potentially get spit back out to another person using a model trained on the same data set.
—Todd Feathers, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Old English spitu; akin to Old High German spiz spit, spizzi pointed
Verb (2)
Middle English spitten, from Old English spittan; akin to Middle High German spiutzen to spit
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
13th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb (2)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a
Noun (2)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)
Phrases Containing spit
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“Spit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spit. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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spit
1 of 3 nounspit
2 of 3 verbspit
3 of 3 nounNoun
Old English spitu "a long rod for holding meat over a fire to cook"
Verb
Old English spittan "to spit (saliva) from the mouth"
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