spiling

present participle of spile

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiling
Verb
  • The giveaway turned a legal stalemate into a community event, bringing traffic-clogging crowds, heartfelt thanks and rare applause for a grower accustomed to seeing his labor go largely unnoticed.
    Gary Kazanjian, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Teams who already slack way off Green defensively would also force James to beat them from the outside while clogging as much space for Curry to operate.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Soccer fans have already been filling seats at new businesses like El Tesoro, the Irish Exit, Glide Pizza and the immersive entertainment destination Cosm.
    Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
  • After two devastating quakes, first responders were fishermen, doctors and emigres returning from abroad — a grassroots campaign filling a government void.
    Helena Carpio, Washington Post, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Within Venezuela, activists have accused authorities of obstructing relief efforts.
    Manuel Rueda, NPR, 27 June 2026
  • The passenger rail service said that eight cars and two locomotives derailed after striking the dump truck that was obstructing the crossing.
    The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • The nine-hole golf course opened in 1908, the same year the city’s first outdoor swimming pool at the park was created by damming up Tyler Creek.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • Responders are establishing diking and damming measures to divert the potential fluid down a grade into a commercial holding area.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Verb
  • Samsung built that into the S26 Ultra’s display at a hardware level, using a filter layer that acts like tiny vertical blinds sitting inside the panel itself, physically blocking light from travelling sideways.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • It’s made from a soft, breathable fabric that’s comfortable enough to wear for hours at a time, and features secure zippered pockets with RFID-blocking protection in order to prevent digital theft of your information.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • This practice carries risks, such as choking and aspiration, or food entering the airway.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Eddie Jenkins had been arrested for domestic battery for allegedly choking Kiara Jenkins in 2009, prosecutors said.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • The signature ingredient, however, is the brand’s plum complex—the sister founders of Le Prunier use materials from their family’s century-old plum farm—to support collagen production, skin barrier health, and hydration without congesting pores.
    Emily Orofino, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
  • America does not need more trucks congesting roads in large population centers.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • From Earth’s vantage point—right along the faraway magnetar’s equator—the wobbling disk acted like a film projector’s shutter, periodically occluding our view of the dead star supercharging SN 2024afav.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For example, if a ball rolled behind some occluding object and temporarily disappeared from view, the model generated an error when the ball didn’t reappear from behind the object in future frames.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Spiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiling. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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