How to Use spit in a Sentence

spit

1 of 2 noun
  • This 50-year mortgage idea is a spit in the face.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Our live blog is still going strong with every cough and spit.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • These can be moistened with a little spit or some watery hide glue.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2020
  • But their drool and spit-up are no match for these super-absorbent terry bibs.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 23 Jan. 2023
  • By the end of the episode, Hatz was swapping spit with a brand new bombshell.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • This is when, allegedly, a fleck of spit flew from my mouth and landed on her sweater.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The restaurant roasts huge cylinders of it on rotating spits.
    — Sharon Hoffmann, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And that is to say nothing of the burning crosses and the guns, the bomb threats and the gobs of hot, frothy spit.
    — Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Through spit and tears, Rhaenyra raises her blade above Otto’s neck and draws it down.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • The judge was targeted with spit, the sheriff’s office said.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Remove the test from the package and put it in your mouth for one minute so that the sponge can soak up plenty of spit.
    — Rita Templeton, Flow Space, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Use the spit buckets (seriously, the pros do it).
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Watch Pine explain the spit-less moment between him and Styles in the clip above.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The restaurant, on a spit of land stretching into the bay, serves up petrale sole and panoramic views.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And, in case of blowouts or spit-up, the toy’s cover is removable and safe to toss in the washing machine.
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 28 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Saturday night was a military spit-shine.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Where the spit landed is important to how prosecutors could have charged the case.
    — Agreen, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
  • This means carefully rinsing them after every use to stave off funky toothpaste and spit residue.
    — Men's Health, 15 Feb. 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
  • Here, Mexicans use pork marinated in a blend of chiles, slow-cooked on a trompo or spit.
    — Serena Maria Daniels, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Not one of those cheap new things made of chromium and spit, an Isotta-Fraschini.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The star of the kitchen is the steak trompo, a huge beehive of strip and sirloin steaks skewered on a vertical spit, glossy with fat.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Seeing a shocking pink flamingo standing tall on a sandy Chincoteague spit?
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Children and adults crowded around the edges as men lowered cords of oak into the corners and then the pig on a metal spit.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026

spit

2 of 2 verb
  • But the ocean spits her back out.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The late hour meant that no one thought to spit or shout.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Picked him up when the system spit him out.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But these stars spit stuff out in fits and starts, not a steady stream.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
  • The saga of these spitting stars is far from over.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
  • The hosts were rolled, sliced, diced, chewed up and spit back out again.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Rice said he was spit on by a fan after the game.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Cuss out a cop, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up.
    — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 19 July 2023
  • Some are lynched and strung up for their victims to spit on.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • City life can chew you up, spit you out and never miss a beat.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • England were chewed up and Giles was spat out.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • Why turn my face toward something that spit me out?
    — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the trio spitting this poison seemed full of joy.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Hollywood chewed her up and spat her out.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Did any labor lawyers who read this just spit out their coffee?
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The chatbot spit out the wrong answer.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • So people were spitting them out.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • And what answer is that model going to spit out?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • This very ice has chewed up and spit out its fair share of competitors in the last two weeks.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The mix-up makes Carell almost spit out his coffee.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The new fruit of the calabash spit into Xquic’s hand.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Soon, the piece of food became dislodged and Xavion spit it out.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • On the first day of his sophomore year, someone spit on him from on top of a set of stairs.
    — Time, 6 June 2023
  • Town wells cracked, while pipes spit only mud and yellow water.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • When Kaliya spits fire, Krishna dances across its many heads, crushing them.
    — Seamus Sullivan september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Bad omen when your season starts with a spitting ejection in first minute of first game?
    — Greg Cote september 7, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Cars and trucks passed a handful of feet away, at times spitting slush onto the group.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The industry chews people up and spits them (and their dreams) right back out.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The three-body problem spit out chaos, yet again, when my liberal wife saw the scene.
    — Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024

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