squirt

Example Sentences

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Children use toy pistols and dispensers to squirt coloured water at their friends.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Put simply, our first suggestion is don't expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

He found the latter habit so offensive that he at times deployed a squirt gun on the lit cigarettes of unsuspecting smokers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt?

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

From then on, every other minute I would duck down: squirt, squirt.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli