splash

Example Sentences

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Every time Moreno tried to make a big splash, he wound up soaking wet.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

All are what you might call lo-fi or DIY indie musicals: little to nothing in the way of fancy costumes, choreographed dances, glamor, splash, fantasy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

A splash stirred into the dip cuts through the richness and turns it from merely creamy into something brighter and more addictive.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

Oil prices and earnings, however, may make more of a splash with markets than the swearing-in ceremony.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

I feel it like a splash of cold water, that old sense of doom and dread, the fear that made me desperate enough to snatch baby Virginia away.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone