How to Use spit in a Sentence

spit

1 of 2 verb

• Cuss out a cop, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 19 July 2023
• The Chug Bug can spit, dart, chug, walk-the-dog, and of course, rattle, in the water.
  — Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• City life can chew you up, spit you out and never miss a beat.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• You will be spit out of the park (on a downhill) to run along Central Park South.
  — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• From the start, her husband screamed at her, spit at her, shoved her, and threw things at her.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• On the first day of his sophomore year, someone spit on him from on top of a set of stairs.
  — Time, 6 June 2023
• The 37-year-old stood and gulped his beer, spit it into the air, and poured the rest of it into a willing fan’s mouth.
  — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2023
• Hamas gunmen sit on her body, and bystanders spit on it.
  — The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
• Cars and trucks passed a handful of feet away, at times spitting slush onto the group.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
• This conveyer belt moves the soil back to the surface and spits it outside.
  — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• During the height of the pandemic, a woman spit on Dawn.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• And now everyone else on the other side of the house is getting chewed up and spit out.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• The three-body problem spit out chaos, yet again, when my liberal wife saw the scene.
  — Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
• She is seen in the video lunging forward and spitting on Lucas.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2023
• During a skit rehearsal, Bates tells Rolling Stone a cast member went off script and spit milk in her face.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
• At first, everyone in Paw Patrol got chewed up and spit out.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• This can cause engine backfire, where fire spits out of the back of the engine, but doesn't mean the engine itself is on fire.
  — Tom Costello, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
• The boom-bap rap song finds the rapper spitting about hustling and grinding his way to success.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 16 May 2023
• The juvenile allegedly tried to run from the deputies, and then spit in one of their faces, according to the release.
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• The craziest was Macedonia, where rabid fans spit and threw coins on the court.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• Worcester then spit on the woman and left by bicycle, Damante said.
  — Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• The song contains no chorus to speak of — just a posse cut of unknown rappers, who happened to be some of the best in the game, spitting a verse each.
  — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• If the smart machine detects anything weird, a suspicious roast is spit out the side.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• The scan compares the amount of fat around the belly (known as android fat) to the amount of fat around the hips and thighs (known as gynoid fat), spitting out a ratio.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• Jonah was swallowed by the whale and spit forth, reborn, reawakened.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Officers told him to stop spitting, and paramedics, who police called, placed a spit hood over his head.
  — Lisa Rathke, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Town wells cracked, while pipes spit only mud and yellow water.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• For the Wolverines, the draft pipeline will start spitting out talent on Friday.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
• When a chatbot spits out off-base replies, ask follow-up questions or scold it to do better.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• When the man walked away, Hinton followed him and spit on his face, according to police.
  — cleveland, 21 July 2023

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spit

2 of 2 noun

• The meat is then roasted on the spit until it’s cooked through and the juices are flowing.
  — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
• His spit-takes and pratfalls from all over the world saved me more than once from a deep funk.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
• Like, this is a low budget film that was made with some spit and some strings and bandaids.
  — Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, refinery29.com, 19 July 2022
• Watch Pine explain the spit-less moment between him and Styles in the clip above.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• There were no pipes at the same location Oct. 8, and the spit, or beach landform, could not be seen.
  — Peter Alexander, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• Marshall told police blood and spit dripped from her mouth.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2023
• This is when, allegedly, a fleck of spit flew from my mouth and landed on her sweater.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Barr told the Washington Post that the crotch grab and spit were a mocking of habits of baseball players.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• As dusk turned to darkness, the fabric structure appeared to float on its spit of land in San Diego Bay.
  — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• But their drool and spit-up are no match for these super-absorbent terry bibs.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 23 Jan. 2023
• These can be moistened with a little spit or some watery hide glue.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2020
• At the restaurant, fill up on venison Wellington and lamb shoulder slow-cooked on spits over an open flame.
  — Lane Nieset, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
• Not one of those cheap new things made of chromium and spit, an Isotta-Fraschini.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• If the giant vats of bubbling caldo de res don’t impress you, the indoor spit just might.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The restaurant roasts huge cylinders of it on rotating spits.
  — Sharon Hoffmann, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• Slices of piglet stuffed with herbs and slowly cooked on the spit are bound in a delicate chestnut crepe that’s topped with raw onions and lime — a racy foil to the rich pork.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• Some tried and failed to turn it into a drug, most didn’t even get that far, and almost no one saw the gila monster spit coming.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• The left side lines up stools in front of a small open kitchen outfitted with a trompo, or vertical meat spit, and a bar backed with a wall of spirits.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The massive fireplace was blackened to the ceiling, as if time itself had once turned there on an enormous spit.
  — Lan Samantha Chang, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Oakland County deputies said Tuesday that the hood is used to protect jail workers from spit.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2023
• Here, Mexicans use pork marinated in a blend of chiles, slow-cooked on a trompo or spit.
  — Serena Maria Daniels, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• For pitchers, who may be used to rubbing a new baseball with spit or sweat, the new rules offer a compromise.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2020
• Where the spit landed is important to how prosecutors could have charged the case.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
• The food might be cooked in a smoker — a contraption that can resemble a grill — or in a pit, or on a spit rotating over a flame.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• Rain intensifies from a light spit to a thunderous clatter as the road winds towards the dense clouds.
  — Charlie Thomas, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
• And although Morgan told police the man’s spit landed squarely on his pants, the man told police his saliva hit the ground.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
• Huli huli, which translates to ‘turn turn,’ is a local-style barbecue chicken that is grilled and basted on a spit.
  — Sunset Magazine, 1 July 2022
• Grandview Beach This narrow spit backed by high bluffs is one of the northernmost beaches in Encinitas.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• Far out over the water, far beyond where the breakwater joins with a thin spit of sand, the sunset has lost all its warmth and is only a paleness against the horizon.
  — Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• Leg of lamb roasts slowly on a spit; a bartender tells a customer which dishes taste exactly like the ones his mother makes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024