SQUIRT in a Sentence

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For SQUIRT, below is one of 9 sentences:
He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUIRT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
squirt
 v.  cause a container of liquid to eject its liquid in a thin, fast stream
 v.  wet with a jet or stream of liquid
Classic Sentence:
1  The pilgrims had opened with their Winchesters, and were simply squirting lead into that bush.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
2  I saw a row of pilgrims squirting lead in the air out of Winchesters held to the hip.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
3  The heavy smell was replaced by the smell of aromatic vinegar, which Kitty with pouting lips and puffed-out, rosy cheeks was squirting through a little pipe.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 18
4  He colored with pleasure at the obvious sincerity of her words, hastily squirted a stream of tobacco juice from the opposite side of the buggy and leaped spryly to the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  The fusillade below stopped short, as I had foreseen it would when the squirts got empty.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  The orange skin squirted in my eye.
2  When I cut the lemon, juice squirted in my eye.
3  Water suddenly squirted out from a hole in the pipe.
4  He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.