Read full poem →they will both be here for your delight. The soul inside was a lump of dirt,
I have rid you of that with a spurt of my sword point. Good luck
to your pleasure. She will be quite complaisant, my friend, I wager."
Dictionary Entry
A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
In a Sentence
“a spurt of water; a spurt of blood”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “spurt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When the snow-girt earth
Cracks to let through a spurt
Of sudden green, and from the muddy dirt
Read full poem →Slim and without sandals!
As the sudden spurt of flame upon darkness
So my eyeballs are startled with you,
Read full poem →home I would stand before the bathroom mirror and break one of the boils.
Yellow pus would spurt and splatter on the mirror. And little white hard
pits. In a horrible way it was fascinating that all that stuff was in there. But
Read full poem →A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match, 10
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Read full poem →That still, if I repent, I may recall it,
But in a moment not: a little spurt
Of burning fatness, and then nothing but