spit
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In the banquet scene, a pig brought in on a spit and laid on the table was suddenly replaced by Banquo, hallucinated by Macbeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"They give it to the babies, who chew on it themselves and spit out the solids".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It is in our nature to see something new and spit it out like we are 2 years old and PepsiCo has offered us a spoonful of broccoli.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
I will take down any amount of food and I will not ask for a spit bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It stuck out over the water in a jagged spit.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
South Korea has said it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, the latest escalation in a diplomatic spat between both countries.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
But after circling a few times, the shark spat out the bait, leaving fishermen on the pier stunned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Humans should want more for themselves than a binary good-bad, or the answers to all of life’s questions spat out by a machine.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Japanese stocks swung between mild gains and losses as investors digested the U.S.-Canada trade spat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Fred always forgot that he didn’t like bananas, so he snitched a bit from her bowl and spat it out across the rock.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
That’s because the first preseason practice of the Kalen DeBoer era was greeted with a sudden bout of Pacific Northwest weather, as rain spitted on the turf inside Husky Stadium Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The whole world is invited, as many reputations as possible are spitted and turned slowly over a sizzling fire, the fumes purposely wafted this way and that.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty."
From Time Magazine Archive
He raised his head slowly, looking across at the spitted chickens revolving before the low blue rotisserie flames.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Some have questioned why those officiating the competition in Beijing last weekend did not intervene when the athlete soiled herself, given that Hyrox penalises acts including spitting and littering.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Stocks are spitting out a smaller share of their returns in dividend income, a challenge for those who lean on steady cash flows to cover daily expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
With the biggest global opening weekend in history, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is cleaning up at the box office in a manner that left “The Odyssey” spitting sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
She gets him within spitting distance of Downing Street just in time for her husband to dump her.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Eddie and my memories were out there somewhere, and these two were having a spitting contest.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
