spurt
Example Sentences
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Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch
There is a small bit of snow that spurts up from each dog’s foot as they run, a little white jet, and that turns in my mind to flame.
From Literature
The lack of electricity, except in rationed spurts, meant searing heat during the day followed by freezing cold during the night.
Still, Gottlieb called that spurt “special,” if only for the fact that it showed USC still has some life as it opens the postseason Thursday against Washington in the Big Ten tournament.
From Los Angeles Times
His paintings of erupting fountains, spurting fireworks and splashing bathers make you feel a cool summer breeze in the middle of a packed fair space.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
