How to Use spew in a Sentence

spew

1 of 2 verb

• The dog spewed vomit on the rug.
• Exhaust spewed out of the car.
• The volcano spewed hot ash.
• Smoke and ashes spewed from the volcano.
• The faucet started spewing dirty water.
• Heavy black and white smoke was spewing from the mansion.
  — Mauricio Maldonado, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
• One house even had a machine on the lawn that spewed out fake snow, which was so cool!
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The oak trees around us are spewing acorns like bullets from a Gatling gun.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• Sarah's the first to spew vomit, with Danny not far behind.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• The outline of a frightening head seems to spew bodies into the sea.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Nor does the size of an A.I.’s training dataset keep it from spewing hateful content.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• But the First Amendment is not a license to spew malicious lies and falsehoods.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• Video shows fountains of bright-orange molten rock spewing from fissures in the ground up to 260 feet into the air.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• The explosions spewed massive amounts of methane into the Baltic Sea.
  — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
• Sheila Davis, 62, complained that each morning, her faucet would spew colors that went from brown to green to yellow to clear.
  — Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• Pulsars are the dead cores of the heaviest stars, which spew out jets of light and spin unbelievably fast.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• One of the leaks is spewing water 30 feet in the air like a geyser and losing the city as much as one million gallons a day, Ms. Hillman said.
  — Sarah Fowler, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• During the initial eruption, fountains of lava spewed from fissures in the Earth.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2023
• Video showed lava spewing from fissures at the crater’s base, but the activity was confined to the crater.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• The politicians who won’t budge on gun laws spew platitudes or stay silent until the latest wave of outrage ebbs.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
• Wrong for not only spewing hate on the internet but also having to deal with it irl..
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
• Would a comic this perceptive really step off the stage and spew hatred for its own sake?
  — TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
• Fields glow kryptonite-green against volcanic black soil, while not-so-distant mountains smoke and spew hot red lava above the heads of hardy sheep.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022
• The whales swim upward in a spiral, spewing bubbles all the way, then lunge into the center of the column to grab an enormous mouthful of krill.
  — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• Reports of Tijuana sewage spewing into the South County region go back at least to the 1930s.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• On Fox News, and in the larger right-wing media universe, the degrading comments Watters was said to have spewed onstage are par for the course.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 June 2023
• Kaleo, an Icelandic band, performed a live acoustic gig in 2021 with the lava spewing in the background.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
• To make matters worse, mainstream media outlets go out of their way to spread the ignorance that these activists spew.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• Hundreds of volcanoes erupting lava fountains that spew dozens of miles into the air are active on the rocky moon, which is terrorized by violent tidal forces that send molten lava spreading and hardening across its surface.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• Sacramento County health inspectors briefly closed a local Carl’s Jr. after seeing wastewater spewing into the fast food restaurant’s parking lot.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024

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spew

2 of 2 noun

• As their vintage rig coughs black smoke, a plug—a greasy amalgamation of mud, sand, and rust—spews from the depths and into the light.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
• Asking good questions is an art, not some loudmouth anger spew.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Suddenly, gray tubes in the room spew jets of fire at the two mannequins, lighting the entire frame ablaze in orange and white and consuming him.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 6 Dec. 2020
• The vomiting pumpkin—in which green foam spews from a jack-o-lantern’s mouth—has become her signature effect.
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
• Scientists have known since the 19th century that burning coal, oil and gas spews carbon dioxide into the air, which then acts like a blanket to trap heat on Earth.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• Untreated, raw sewage spews into the river when heavy rains overwhelm the city’s wastewater system, which is less frequent today than in years past. .
  — Kari Lydersen, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• These kids burst into tears, spew insults, and even threaten to beat up Jimmy for encouraging their parents to act so cruelly.
  — Katelyn Lunders, Country Living, 3 Nov. 2017
• Brown coal, a greasy, low-grade fuel also known as lignite, isn’t just controversial because of the greenhouse gases its burning spews into the atmosphere.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
• Footage captured by photographer Guiseppe Distefano shows the highly active volcano as lava flows and ash spews over Mount Etna's snowy edges.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• The whole area seethes with hydrothermal activity: Sulfuric acid spews from active fumaroles; geysers spout water and steam; the ground froths with boiling mud; and earthquake swarms shudder through the region, 125 miles south of Rome.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
• Diesel engines, like all internal combustion engines, spew fumes that contribute to global warming.
  — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Meanwhile, Chinese propagandists and the Iranian dictator spew threats and hateful lies on these platforms with impunity.
  — Donald J. Trump, WSJ, 8 July 2021
• In the 1990s, the auto industry preserved the subsidies by convincing politicians that diesels were better for the environment than gasoline engines, a dubious claim given the other pollutants that diesel spews.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Normally placid people get enveloped by the emotion and for 90 minutes morph into someone else: voices are lost, tempers flare, every decision contested with a spew of profanity.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• This whirlwind sequence unfolds Alexandre’s romantic desperation, torrentially intellectual word-spew, and essential traditionalism.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• As their vintage rig coughs black smoke, a plug—a greasy amalgamation of mud, sand, and rust—spews from the depths and into the light.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
• Asking good questions is an art, not some loudmouth anger spew.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Suddenly, gray tubes in the room spew jets of fire at the two mannequins, lighting the entire frame ablaze in orange and white and consuming him.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 6 Dec. 2020
• The vomiting pumpkin—in which green foam spews from a jack-o-lantern’s mouth—has become her signature effect.
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
• Scientists have known since the 19th century that burning coal, oil and gas spews carbon dioxide into the air, which then acts like a blanket to trap heat on Earth.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• Untreated, raw sewage spews into the river when heavy rains overwhelm the city’s wastewater system, which is less frequent today than in years past. .
  — Kari Lydersen, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• These kids burst into tears, spew insults, and even threaten to beat up Jimmy for encouraging their parents to act so cruelly.
  — Katelyn Lunders, Country Living, 3 Nov. 2017
• Brown coal, a greasy, low-grade fuel also known as lignite, isn’t just controversial because of the greenhouse gases its burning spews into the atmosphere.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
• Footage captured by photographer Guiseppe Distefano shows the highly active volcano as lava flows and ash spews over Mount Etna's snowy edges.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• The whole area seethes with hydrothermal activity: Sulfuric acid spews from active fumaroles; geysers spout water and steam; the ground froths with boiling mud; and earthquake swarms shudder through the region, 125 miles south of Rome.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
• Diesel engines, like all internal combustion engines, spew fumes that contribute to global warming.
  — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Meanwhile, Chinese propagandists and the Iranian dictator spew threats and hateful lies on these platforms with impunity.
  — Donald J. Trump, WSJ, 8 July 2021
• In the 1990s, the auto industry preserved the subsidies by convincing politicians that diesels were better for the environment than gasoline engines, a dubious claim given the other pollutants that diesel spews.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Normally placid people get enveloped by the emotion and for 90 minutes morph into someone else: voices are lost, tempers flare, every decision contested with a spew of profanity.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• This whirlwind sequence unfolds Alexandre’s romantic desperation, torrentially intellectual word-spew, and essential traditionalism.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024