squirt
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At highway speeds, the sedan’s sharp reflexes and deep reserves of squirt create significant moral temptation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
A squirt of dish soap, a cup of hot water, a few pulses to loosen the worst of it—then a quick pass with a brush.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
One of her son’s friends had taken the squirt gun game too far, she thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
These approaches were to do with different philosophies of dealing with a phenomenon known as 'tyre squirt'.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
If the shock waves moving in on the plutonium were not perfectly even, some plutonium would squirt out, instead of being driven in.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
You can also add a few squirts of TJ’s Sriracha Sauce, just before adding the seasoning packet, for a spicy kick.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
To construct a house, the Vulcan II squirts out layer after layer of the house’s walls onto the base.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 10, 2024
These tools are easily available, Sullivan said, “but people don’t often read the instructions. They think if one squirt works, two squirts are better. That’s not the case.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Especially at the larval stages, sea squirts are surprisingly similar to us.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
I try a couple more squirts, but it’s no use.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
"A lot of stuff gets dropped on or squirted at the audience," noted Lukowski.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
The information contained in a paper return could be squirted over a modem as a series of 0’s and 1’s, obviating the need to kill trees and race to the post office.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024
The ball squirted some 20 yards into Bills territory and was recovered by Nick Herbig at Buffalo’s 33.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
This new fabrication process utilizes a technique called multimaterial extrusion 3D printing, in which several materials can be squirted through the printer's many nozzles to build a device layer by layer.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
Let me tell you, you don’t want to open your gym locker and find that someone has squirted shaving cream into it.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
For days before his PortaSplit arrived, he had resorted to squirting water on his face to keep cool at home.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Frustrated locals have often staged protests around it, sometimes squirting tourists with water guns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
They ranged from multiple 24-second violations to lost rebounds to a ball squirting through James’ hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025
A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt?
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Now they were no longer thirsty their thoughts were on the food they were about to get and they heard each other’s stomachs rumbling and squirting in the gloom, and it made them laugh.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
