How to Use spittoon in a Sentence

spittoon

noun

• There is no formal model for this—does one need a spittoon?
  — Vogue, 15 Dec. 2017
• The shop would also have spittoons for the many customers who chewed tobacco.
  — Brian Early, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
• The monogrammed spittoons were said to be solid silver.
  — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• The man so loved his chaw that congressional pages ran fresh spittoons to his desk in relays.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Jan. 2017
• Even that viscous wine (said to be fermented in a spittoon) went down more easily than this sudden insight into the way things are.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Complete game shutouts have gone the way of flannel uniforms and spittoons, the sport transforming at its most rapid pace since the live-ball era began nearly a century ago.
  — Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• His mother took in laundry, and Mr. Schmitt worked shining shoes and cleaning spittoons at his brother-in-law’s barbershop.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2017
• That same person got a job at the VA cleaning out the spittoons and beds in the tuberculosis ward and then came to Miami and started working as a door-to-door salesman.
  — Carmen Pelaez, NBC News, 31 May 2017
• Jack Johnson threw open the doors himself on that hot July evening in 1912 (the Tribune ooohed and aaahed at the new electric fans) and the party didn’t stop until the police showed up, at which point the silver spittoons were quickly stashed.
  — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• A few minutes later, a relatively traditional Bloody was poured over many tiny ice marbles inside the bowl of what looked like a small spittoon.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• So the spittoon and the handshaking are interesting examples.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• Many are accompanied by tiny accessories—pistols, swords, hats, whiskey bottles, even a barroom spittoon.
  — Tom Sancton, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
• Around the spittoon’s broad brim were arranged five garnishes, or side dishes, or condiments, including chopped razor clam with celery sorbet and a little pillbox of horseradish jelly.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• This guided history tour of the cemetery and its world famous gardens focuses on Sacramento’s tobacco ties – including a spittoon convention.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 30 June 2017
• Cixi, a peer of Queen Victoria’s and apparently iron-willed, has invited revisionist interpretations that view her as a feminist, at least in the context of the late 19th century, when women in China were treated little better than spittoons.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024