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• lyric: The music reaches another level suddenly and the vocalist spits out lyrics and sounds utterly convincing.

Adjective modifier

• sandy: The ' sandy spit ' described by Wild is nothing more than a narrow bouldered isthmus.

• narrow: It was he who was responsible for erecting a castle on the narrow spit of land to protect the growing settlement of Shrewsbury.

Object

• blood: He will be spitting blood now he's in US custody.

• image: I'm sure she is the spitting image of my ' Banjo ' .

Followed by an intransitive particle

• upon: Our pews are empty, our churches are desecrated, our faith and creed spat upon by modern society.

Modifies a noun

• devil: We had a cat many years ago in Baton Rouge that was " playing " with a spit devil like cats play with lizards.

Preposition: of

• sand: Nikolai Dejevsky Still water and a spit of sand; my hand full of pebbles; how many skips before they sink?

• land: We struggled through the waves toward a spit of land.

Preposition: with

• rain: Although it started to spit with rain as I went out, it did not affect me that much.

Noun used with modifier

• shingle: The shingle spit of Blakeney Point meets the coast here.

• cuckoo: Pests The only pest on lavender is the green capsid bug or cuckoo spit.

• sand: One of the unique features of the hotel is the shallow sand spit which connects The Retreat to the beautiful beaches on the island.

• gravel: Before its development as a gravel spit, the site of the Denn was an area of upper-middle saltmarsh.