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
Children use toy pistols and dispensers to squirt coloured water at their friends.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
The smaller squirt spilt his books too as he bent down to help.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Sea squirts are invertebrates, making them useful for identifying differences between animals without backbones and those with them.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
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
Maxine takes the lemon wedge that’s on the rim of her glass, squirts it into her water, and takes a sip.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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
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
The ball squirted through everybody and landed right at the foot of the one guy nobody was worrying about, Cesar Salad.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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
Right then, he was squirting big globs of sunblock onto his hands and rubbing it into his brown skin until the white lotion disappeared.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
