squirt
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Or China, where the long back straight is followed by a hairpin, a short squirt to the final corner, and then the pit straight.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
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
Unlike the sea squirt, both the lamprey and the frog produced many more versions of proteins from individual signaling output genes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
He sucked the squirt bottle and spit the water at me.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
Exeter have possession close to the posts but it squirts out from the breakdown and the chance is gone.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
From algae and colorful fish to marine snails and sea squirts, a completely different world reveals itself underwater.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
In the girls’ room, I throw away the garbage and quickly wash my hands using 3 squirts of soap.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
After Willson Contreras and Lars Nootbaar greeted him with singles to put runners at the corners, Pozo squirted a two-out single over the infield to score pinch-runner Garrett Hampson for the go-ahead run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
Bemused couples sitting in street cafés got squirted with water pistols and a luxury clothes store was pasted with stickers declaring the tourists who'd shut themselves inside unwelcome.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
About the size of a banana, Peng’s squid squirted water and ink as it dangled from his pink and white jig.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
She pulled a medspray out, closed her eyes, and squirted herself in the face.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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
This revealed that the seed projection method of the squirting cucumber has been fine-tuned to ensure near-optimal dispersal and the success of the plant over generations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
“Where’s your bull man?” says the man, squirting a wad of tobacco juice from the corner of his mouth.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
