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Example sentences for "spoil"

Lexicographically close words:
splutter; spluttered; spluttering; spoake; spoaken; spoilage; spoile; spoiled; spoiler; spoilers
  1. Surely no one has a right to spoil your chance of a scholarship for a musty old school rule that ought to have been abolished a century ago.

  2. But now this letter might spoil everything.

  3. Nobody wants to find the chap out now, so your particular is all serene up to now, and I don't mean to drip and spoil his game.

  4. Bickers of course came, and tried to spoil our sports, but Marky gave him a flea in his ear, and Dig and I howled; so he didn't stay long.

  5. Of course you must not show one another your notes," said Ainger; "that would spoil all.

  6. Nobody wants to find the chap out now; so your particular is all serene up to now, and I don't mean to drip and spoil his game.

  7. Then if you do, tell her she's a shameless wanton, thus to seduce a married man, and that Antonio's wife will spoil her beauty if she come across her.

  8. Yes, that's your way, Sir Gilbert; you spoil them all.

  9. Flatterer, thou shalt rue thy trade, though it have many present gains; Those varnished wares may sell apace, yet shall they spoil thy credit.

  10. A visto cut through the wood has a delightful effect from the front: but there are some trumpery fragments of gardens that spoil the view from the state apartments.

  11. He is a simple old Phobus, but nothing can spoil so glorious a situation, which surpasses every thing round it.

  12. I should call it spoil them-- -with large pieces of stone.

  13. The chimneys, which are collected to a centre, spoil the dome of the house, and the hall is a dark well.

  14. Now if we could only succeed in preventing Hadrian observing the heavens merely during the third hour after midnight we should preserve him from trouble and anxiety, which will torment and spoil his life.

  15. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism--are forced, indeed, so to spoil them.

  16. Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.

  17. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism.

  18. I told you on the day I joined that if we ever met again and by word or look or gesture you insulted me, I would spoil that handsome face of yours.

  19. But I warn you that, under any circumstances whatsoever, if you should presume upon any difference in our rank to insult me by a word, a gesture, or a look I'll spoil your beauty for you.

  20. The probability is, before they leave your house they half spoil your children with kindnesses.

  21. They intrust to irresponsible persons these young immortals, and allow them to be under influences which may cripple their bodies, or taint their purity, or spoil their manners, or destroy their souls.

  22. But surely civilization, even if it spoil sport and degrade scenery, is better than a state of things in which the laird would hang up his foes to an iron ring in the roof.

  23. It is more dreadful far to spoil or lose a friend's book than to have our own lost or spoiled.

  24. Sometimes I think I spoil him, and then I remember 'his mother who was patient being dead.

  25. To treat them with more than pleasant civility would spoil them for business.

  26. Oh, come, Jim, are you going to spoil our card quartette on the train?

  27. Then isn't a friendship between us possible without anything threatening to spoil it?

  28. With this view, society is very solicitous to keep her at a distance from everything that may spoil or destroy the bloom of her character and tastes.

  29. Forgery differs from other crimes not less in the magnitude of the spoil it may obtain, and of the injury it inflicts, than in the facilities attending its accomplishment.

  30. Some years later Mahomed Tughlak loads 200 elephants and several thousand bullocks with the precious spoil of a single temple.

  31. These Barons and soldiers accordingly, when they saw what large spoil they had got from him, were all ready to say he was the best of kings, and were full of love for him, and declared they would have no lord but him.

  32. It would spoil the charm to have anyone present.

  33. The worst thing about this sort of a head was that it did not keep well and was sure to spoil sooner or later.

  34. It would be silly to spoil her pleasure now by worrying.

  35. She wished she had let the old catamaran spoil her skirt; and so on.

  36. Why shouldn't it concern me to spoil a pair of nine dollar shoes?

  37. Of course, you knew I couldn't be nice to a man with a wife, so you had to go and spoil everything.

  38. Commit the war of white and damask in their nicely gawded cheeks to the wanton and spoil of Phoebus' burning kisses.

  39. It was all done so quickly and so deftly that I alone noticed it, as well as the answering look in Mignon's eyes: full of such gratitude and reverence that I started lest she should betray herself and thus spoil it all.

  40. Spare the rod and spoil the--' You know the rest of it.

  41. Even mummies and the spoil of coffins three thousand years old--and he had inspected many of them--failed to stir him.

  42. I suppose I spoil the perspective," said Allan, unexpectedly ruffled.

  43. I don’t see how he could spoil a book,” said Royal.

  44. It seemed a pity to spoil that new pretty model of the car builder's art.

  45. Really you can't and I don't want to spoil your evening.

  46. Instinctively she knew that one word from her might spoil all.

  47. No doubt somewhere in the picture a man was skulking, but even in the light of matrimonial experience this was not sufficient to spoil the full enjoyment of those moments.

  48. Robbery and piracy in a good straightforward wholesale way were honoured and respected; but to steal, to creep to a man's abode secretly at dead of night and spoil his goods, was looked upon as infamy of the worst kind.

  49. He was thought to spoil everything there, and some men even said that he was too good friends with Hallgerda, and that he led her astray, but some spoke against that.

  50. The sons of Sigfus followed him and all the crowd, and both sides said that nothing should ever come between them to spoil their friendship.

  51. Hrapp owned a farm at Hrappstede, but for all that he was always at Gritwater, and he was thought to spoil everything there.

  52. I will therefore ask you this, my sons, not to spoil these things in any way.

  53. After that he was there, and kept himself down a little white, but then it was the old story, he seemed to spoil all the good he found; for he gave way to no one save to Hallgerda alone, but she never took his side in his brawls with others.

  54. Then he gave orders that no man should spoil or rob anything there.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    spoiled child; spoils system; spoilt child