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
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
“It wasn’t totally unusual for kids to be creeping around our house with big squirt guns,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
“Tell them that Dottor Massimo is the Thief Lord: What a pity you're such a little squirt that nobody will believe you.”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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
While the effects were not as widespread as those of new PVC pellets, high concentrations were found to affect the development of molluscs, sea urchins, sea stars and sea squirts.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
It was just a pair of second-year squirts, sent to get a pile of Cider with Rosie.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
He squirted the ball through the leg side and showed elegance through the off.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2024
They have contracting muscle bands, like those in the human throat, that pump water sucked from one side of the body and squirted out the other end to create thrust, Damian-Serrano said.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
McIlroy was within two shots of Schauffele, but his fairway wood out of the bunker on the par-5 15th caught sand and the ball squirted off to the right about 50 yards away.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
Behind him, a tiny burst of fart squirted out.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
Until now, the exact mechanism of the squirting cucumber's seed dispersal -- and how this affects its reproductive success -- remained poorly understood.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Their technology involves pumping through fissures in the ground and squirting the carbon-rich material thousands of feet down, beneath a rock layer that should be impermeable for centuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
“Squid have two lines of defense: squirting ink and escaping quickly. They need a lot of oxygen to move away from predators. Maybe they have three hearts to keep up the oxygen supply.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
