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How to use spurts in a sentence

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Jon's laugh starts from his throat and it comes out in quick spurts and gulps of air.
When a guard takes out a knife and slits the plastic of one, a light-green herb spurts out.
I threw the rag down with a soft mutter of disgust, cradling my chin in my trembling hands, my breath coming in short, unhealthy spurts.
Although the pilot creates confident spurts of white, the lines eventually pull apart, becoming just scribbles in the sky.
But despite his forced jocularity, desultory attempts at humour, and spurts of nervous energy, Obree is a husk of heroism past.
Of course, these insights were only revealed in between the necessary mad, frenetic spurts of brotherly horseplay.
What struck me for the first time was the relationship of this style with the style of jazz known as bebop, spurts of dissonant, jagged sound.
A jagged crack shot through the ice and water gushed up in jets and spurts.
According to dictionary definitions and everyday usage, a fountain is a jet of water that spurts up into the air.
I suffered from insomnia last night and slept in fits and spurts throughout the day.
This is because shallow ponds warm faster than deep lakes during the spurts of mild weather in February and early March.
There were also notable spurts of strange behaviour and panic from cast and crew while filming.
Good bloggers tend to be acerbic, prolific, polemical, and good in short spurts.
You're more likely to ace the test if you study in spurts with occasional breaks in between.
This also explains why evolution often appears to go in spurts after periods of apparent stasis.
The few spurts of humorous dialogue are like, well, an oasis in the desert.
Development may come in sudden spurts followed by centuries without change.
Interval training alternates repeated spurts of intensive activity with timed spans of slower periods of the same activity.
When an emergency arises, a pipe bursts and hot water spurts from underneath the cabin, she grabs her child and goes to look for help.
The lake's remarkable centerpiece is a massive, yet elegant fountain that spurts water as high as 36 feet into the air.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Though most of its forequarters were blown away, blood pumping out in dying spurts, it kept trying to reach Jason.
Now the current comes from an induction coil in a series of spurts.
I have always desired to look natty and I have spurts of primness.
If the blood is bright and comes out in spurts, it's an artery.
They came in separate spurts, as though reminding me of themselves, but did not banish the dissipation by their appearance.
As they stepped cautiously within an impalpable dust arose in little spurts from the long rotted rushes that crumbled beneath their feet.
Red spurts of flame flickered up from the wreckage until it was all ablaze.
So I worked on and on, with spurts of fury and periods of lagging.
Mr. lum's method of progression was a series of short spurts.
Then the procession started on, little spurts of strength coming into White Fang's muscles as he used them and the blood began to surge through them.
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