How to Use spittoon in a Sentence

spittoon

noun
  • The spittoon, also known as the dump bucket, is a great tool for the wine lover who's also a wine pro.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The man so loved his chaw that congressional pages ran fresh spittoons to his desk in relays.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Jan. 2017
  • The shop would also have spittoons for the many customers who chewed tobacco.
    — Brian Early, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Even that viscous wine (said to be fermented in a spittoon) went down more easily than this sudden insight into the way things are.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • Many are accompanied by tiny accessories—pistols, swords, hats, whiskey bottles, even a barroom spittoon.
    — Tom Sancton, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Complete game shutouts have gone the way of flannel uniforms and spittoons, the sport transforming at its most rapid pace since the live-ball era began nearly a century ago.
    — Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • So the spittoon and the handshaking are interesting examples.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Stale ashtrays and spittoons were everywhere, along with wastebaskets surrounded by mounds of misaimed and crumpled papers.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • That same person got a job at the VA cleaning out the spittoons and beds in the tuberculosis ward and then came to Miami and started working as a door-to-door salesman.
    — Carmen Pelaez, NBC News, 31 May 2017
  • Camilla Sartori, the facility manager, had set up a tray holding six black wineglasses, a spittoon, and two clear glasses, one filled with water and the other with a slightly sugary solution designed to be a palate cleanser.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Jack Johnson threw open the doors himself on that hot July evening in 1912 (the Tribune ooohed and aaahed at the new electric fans) and the party didn’t stop until the police showed up, at which point the silver spittoons were quickly stashed.
    — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • Cixi, a peer of Queen Victoria’s and apparently iron-willed, has invited revisionist interpretations that view her as a feminist, at least in the context of the late 19th century, when women in China were treated little better than spittoons.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018

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