SPIT in a Sentence

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For SPIT, below is one of 62 sentences:
He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spit
 v.  expel or eject from the mouth; rain gently
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  You believe that you are going to spit a Jesuit, and he is your defender.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
2  A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
4  He grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; and he does more than spit upon it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
5  Thenardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his chair.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
6  He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
7  In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, suddenly burst out crying.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
8  The host armed himself with a spit, and rushed into the chamber occupied by the two friends.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
9  Stop a bit," said the dragoon, placing his saber like a spit upon the two large iron dogs which held the firebrands in the chimney, "stop a bit, I am in it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
10  As they drove off, Scarlett had the impulse to spit at them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Raging as she was at his attack on Ashley, she would have given anything to spit on him and throw his offer of money proudly into his mocking face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  She picked up the cologne bottle and took a large mouthful, carefully rinsed her mouth and then spit into the slop jar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  And as for Scallawags--that's you and me, my pet--we'll be lucky if we aren't spit upon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  It seemed to shake him all over, and it never stopped; you could see a red stain wherever he had spit upon the floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence:
1  It's rude to spit in public except soccer players.
2  The game, which features a puffy, pink protagonist who gobbles up enemies and spits them out as projectiles, became a hallmark of casual gameplay for the mobile game device well before the era of smartphone games.
3  He was spitting blood from a badly cut lip.
4  He was spitting blood after being hit in the mouth.
5  Nina looks the spitting image of Sissy Spacek.
6  He's the spitting image of his mother.
7  Josie is the spitting image of her granny at the same age.
8  If it's only spitting , perhaps we don't need waterproofs.