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Example sentences for "pouring"

Lexicographically close words:
pource; poure; poured; pourest; poureth; pourings; pourparlers; pourpoint; pourpre; pourquoi
  1. It rained sometimes, pouring down so suddenly that a retreat to the traveling wagons was impossible.

  2. I cannot describe how startled I was when I first came near one of these improvised chimneys, and saw smoke pouring out, without any other evidence that I was walking over the home of a frontier citizen.

  3. As the seaman looked down at the pitiful old soul that had thus broken the floodgates of a long silence, and was pouring out her confidences to him, he felt an unusual lump in his throat.

  4. I think," said Nunaga, pouring oil into the lamp, "that he is sorry for what he has done.

  5. On the side of the river opposite, mammoth springs burst out of this crevice, one or two hundred feet above the river, pouring in a stream quite equal in volume to the Colorado Chiquito.

  6. In one part of the picture we have a lake, and near by stands a priest pouring water on the head of a native.

  7. The spectacle of this wicked creature pouring out supplications, evil ones no doubt, to the arch enemy of mankind, was so uncanny that it caused us to hasten our inspection.

  8. In a second he was lifted up, and eager hands were pouring water on his face.

  9. By this time the sunlight was pouring its cold rays, for here they were cold, straight into the mouth of the cave.

  10. The lectures over, the stream would flow back over the Little Bridge, filling the taverns and hospices, and pouring out over the great playing meadow, that stretched from the island to the present Champ de Mars.

  11. The twelfth century saw another great stream of men pouring eagerly into a solitude where there was no luxury but the rude beauty of nature.

  12. The whitish stain left on a mahogany table by a jug of boiling water or a very hot dish may be removed by rubbing in oil and afterward pouring a little spirits of wine on the spot and rubbing it dry with a cloth.

  13. And the earth was scattered over with the (sacrificial) contents of broken jars and shattered ladles for pouring libations of clarified butter and with the sacred fires kept with care by the ascetics.

  14. And flocks of peacocks and Datyuhas and Chakoras and Varhins and Kokilas, seated on the tops of the tallest trees of that forest were pouring forth their mellifluous notes.

  15. A form of sacrifice which consists in pouring oblations of clarified butter with prayers into a blazing fire.

  16. I want to make a map like Hope's class had to," answered Peace, pouring an apronful of scraps into a bucket of scalding water.

  17. It needs some more water," said Peace, catching up a dipper of cold water and pouring it into one sizzling pot.

  18. In the Jadar valley another disorganized mob of Austrians was fleeing before the Serbians up on the Iverak ridges, who also were pouring a hot artillery fire into their midst.

  19. Two days later, Austro-German columns were pouring over the Dukla.

  20. Up in Shabatz, Austrian troops were pouring across the pontoon bridges.

  21. Adding a small quantity of antiseptic to a large volume of fluid or solid is as useless as pouring a small quantity of antiseptic down a sewer with the idea that such treatment will disinfect the sewage.

  22. Small moulds are made by pouring this paste into cardboard dishes, where it hardens again.

  23. Dalton, as, clasping his hands on his knees, he sat, a perfect type of disappointed hope, and totally inattentive to a very eloquent explanation that Prichard was pouring forth.

  24. The London season over, England would be pouring its myriads of talking, gossiping travellers over the Continent, and then he should be discussed, probably avoided and shunned too.

  25. Besides, the blood was pouring from the gash in his shoulder and that foreleg was growing weak; it was well that the battle had ended at this point.

  26. He brought down his gait to a stumbling canter for now a great weakness was pouring through his legs and his heart fluttered and trembled like the heart of a yearling when it first feels the strain and burn of the rope.

  27. He must not guess at the torment in her mind and all the self-revelations which had been pouring into her consciousness during the past few moments.

  28. Growing by magic from the sand behind the little rock the head and shoulders of a man appeared, his shadow pouring down the sun-whitened slope.

  29. Down the bank he trotted the buckskin, shaking his fist at Alcatraz and pouring the stream of his curses at that devoted head.

  30. Now he scooped it up, threw off the covers of the stove, and in a moment white smoke was pouring up from the paper, then flickering bursts of flame every one of which made the body of Perris seem shuddering back to life.

  31. He was pouring himself over the ground with an endless succession of smooth impulses.

  32. Your bedroom unfortunately has a brack roof; and through the defective places in the latter, which every moment become larger and more numerous, streams of water are pouring in, till at last the room seems to be one large shower-bath.

  33. We are in camp on low land just outside the post, and last night we were almost washed away again by the down-pouring rain, and this morning there is mud everywhere.

  34. As she approached, with the Venetian flag flying at her masthead, the Genoese archers on the poop of the galley, who had hitherto been pouring their missiles among Pisani's men, turned round and opened fire upon this new foe.

  35. I warrant, if Pisani was out and about, you would see Venice as active as a swarm of bees, pouring out against our aggressors.

  36. She at once fell out of the line of the battle, her opponent keeping close to her, pouring in volumes of missiles, while the sea, taking her on the broad side, washed numbers of her crew overboard.

  37. Even those who had stampeded at the first yell of alarm were now reining back in broad, sweeping circle, unslinging the ready rifle and pouring in a long-range fire on the distant rank of cavalry, just bursting into the triumph of the charge.

  38. It was with mad, feverish joy that when at last the sun came pouring in a flood of light over the desert of the Cababi he listened to the report of a trusted subordinate.

  39. Aunt Cal was pouring her second cup of tea when we came in.

  40. Looking beyond the boy, I saw the Captain in the act of pouring out a saucer of milk.

  41. It was pouring by the time we reached Fishers Haven.

  42. It was a big wide hall, running the full length of the house, and I could well imagine that with the doors wide open and the sunshine and fresh air pouring in, it might have been attractive.

  43. Rose had slumped into a chair at the dining-room table, and was pouring herself a cup of cold and bitter tea.

  44. So it was that Mary Gowd began the process of pouring the bloody, religious, wanton, pious, thrilling, dreadful history of Rome into the pretty and unheeding ear of Tweetie Gregg.

  45. Reivers stopped short in the act of pouring himself a drink.

  46. Say when, lad," said Campbell, pouring into a generous glass.

  47. His primitive mind was obsessed with the idea of pouring more burning poison down his throat than this broken-down waster who dared to drink up to him.

  48. Turning his head, he saw a dozen horsemen pouring through the gate.

  49. Crowds were pouring towards the palace, Hindus and Mohammedans together, their faces lit with joy.

  50. It would be a material gain to the besiegers to learn how far that feeling extended, and how far the normal population would support the hordes of rebels who were constantly pouring into the city.

  51. Early on the morning of August 25, in pouring rain, Nicholson left camp at the head of two thousand five hundred men, consisting of horse and foot, British and native, and three troops of horse artillery under Major Tombs.

  52. The mob was already pouring down the lane behind the fakir--hundreds of men in the frenzied zeal of fanaticism.

  53. The garden seemed quite fifty or sixty feet below us, and the sun pouring into it with an intense, moveless heat like that of an oven.

  54. They drew together, uttering frightened exclamations; and the lights flashed as the others came pouring out of the cemetery pell-mell, like men possessed.

  55. Every inch of it was covered with them, and more and more were pouring through the small circular hole in the ceiling whence it emerged, so that with their weight the bell was beginning to sway.

  56. He painted them in the beautiful colours of his own fancy, and worshipped them, pouring out at their feet all the passionate emotionalism of his Greek nature.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pouring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.