Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: spilled
IPA transcription: [sp'ɪld]
Usage examples
  • Who but Indians could have spilled such innocent blood?
  • Already she was trembling so that half the tea was spilled.
  • "But it's rather cold, and I've spilled it--almost all of it."
  • But now that blood has been spilled there is only one way--pitiless struggle.
  • She has wanted it for three years, and she was quite ugly the time I spilled coffee on it.
  • "It is this," said Kraft, punctuating in a puddle of spilled coffee with a stiff forefinger.
  • Why did you lead those animals in here ..." His voice cracked and broke as anger choked him and spilled over.
  • Her potatoes spilled over the deck, while a wail from the front of the boat announced that one of the babies had bumped, too.
  • He went to the forest, and when he came near the rock, having seen neither his brother nor the mules in his way, was seriously alarmed at finding some blood spilled near the door, which he took for an ill omen; but when he had pronounced the word, and the door had opened, he was struck with horror at the dismal sight of his brother's body.
  • The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, saluting the victorious Revolution of the Petrograd proletariat and garrison, particularly emphasises the unity, organisation, discipline, and complete cooperation shown by the masses in this rising; rarely has less blood been spilled, and rarely has an insurrection succeeded so well.