POUR in a Sentence

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For POUR, below is one of 267 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of POUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pour
 v.  flow in a spurt; rain heavily
 v.  supply in large amounts
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  Servants pour water on their hands, serve corn from baskets, and bring napkins with close-cut pile.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
6  This I pray; this and my blood with it I pour for the last utterance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
8  Speedily all pour glad libation on the board, and supplicate the gods.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
9  The Rutulians pour in when they see the entrance open.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
10  Thus much he spoke; and meanwhile the broad light of returning day now began to pour in, and chased away the night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  But, to Scarlett, watching the bluecoats pour into the front hall, it was not a countrywide affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  The nice young captain was trying to pour a glass of brandy into her mouth and had spilled it down her neck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  Flames poured out of the windows of the building.
17  He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.
18  He poured himself a whisky and sat down in the chair.
19  He poured me a cup of tea.
20  She poured the dark brown liquid down the sink.
21  Millions of dollars were poured into the maw of defense spending.
22  I poured us a glass of sherry.
23  He poured her a drink, then filled his own glass.
24  She poured herself a large tot of whisky.
25  Water poured through the hole, saturating the carpet.
26  They poured the hot metal into the mould.
27  He poured me a generous measure of whisky.
28  When nitric acid is poured on copper, a brown vapor gives off.
29  Crowds of people poured into the street.
30  Her tears poured forth as she watched the sad scene.