POUR in a Sentence
Learn POUR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for POUR, such as:
1. Water poured down the wall from the roof.
2. I need a funnel to pour petrol into the tank.
3. Blood poured from a deep gash in her forehead.
4. Even worse, they pour dirty water in to rivers.
5. We pour money into the education of our children.
2. I need a funnel to pour petrol into the tank.
3. Blood poured from a deep gash in her forehead.
4. Even worse, they pour dirty water in to rivers.
5. We pour money into the education of our children.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POUR
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pour
v. cause to run
v. supply in large amounts or quantities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Even with these words, turning his spear, he struck the side of the hollow hill, and the winds, as in banded array, pour where passage is given them, and cover earth with eddying blasts.
2 Servants pour water on their hands, serve corn from baskets, and bring napkins with close-cut pile.
3 Force makes way; the Greeks burst through the entrance and pour in, slaughtering the foremost, and filling the space with a wide stream of soldiers.
4 On them, while the beaters run up and down, and the lawns are girt with toils, will I pour down a blackening rain-cloud mingled with hail, and startle all the sky in thunder.
5 A chosen company issue from the gates while the morning star is high; they pour forth with meshed nets, toils, broad-headed hunting spears, Massylian horsemen and sinewy sleuth-hounds.
6 This I pray; this and my blood with it I pour for the last utterance.
7 The shepherds pour in full tale from the battlefield into the town, bearing back their slain, the boy Almo and Galaesus' disfigured face, and cry on the gods and call on Latinus.
8 Speedily all pour glad libation on the board, and supplicate the gods.
9 The Rutulians pour in when they see the entrance open.
10 Thus much he spoke; and meanwhile the broad light of returning day now began to pour in, and chased away the night.
11 On this side all the Trojan and Tyrrhenian host pour in diverse armament, girt with iron even as though the harsh battle-strife called them forth.
12 They, turning their eyes towards the sunrising, scatter salted corn from their hands and clip the beasts with steel over the temples, and pour cups on the altars.
13 If she could only be with Ellen, just to see her, to hold onto her skirt, to cry and pour out the whole story in her lap.
14 But, to Scarlett, watching the bluecoats pour into the front hall, it was not a countrywide affair.
15 The nice young captain was trying to pour a glass of brandy into her mouth and had spilled it down her neck.
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
2 Crowds of faceless people pour into the city each day.
3 Another method, used especially for figures, was to pour the clay into a mould.
4 Even worse, they pour dirty water in to rivers.
5 Don't pour hot water into the glass or it will crack.
6 A cement mixer agitates the cement until it is ready to pour.
7 I need a funnel to pour petrol into the tank.
8 We pour money into the education of our children.
9 The mayor says he'll pour money on the tube, back into the underground network.
10 Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you'll destroy the flavor.
11 Although I poured it carefully, I still managed to spill some.
12 He flipped the top off the bottle and poured himself a drink.
13 I looked under the bonnet and clouds of smoke poured out.
14 Water poured down the wall from the roof.
15 Blood poured from a deep gash in her forehead.