pour something out

Examples of poured

poured

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The beer is finally poured into vessels (5th reg ister).
The purest water was normally obtained from caves and was placed in bowls and poured onto idols, world trees, or the ground.
Melted paraffin wax was poured over the agar to provide an effective hydraulic seal.
For one group of their descendants, the magic strainer through which longsuffering language is to be poured is the supposedly sociopolitical criterion of 'sexism'.
It is also said that, in order to sabotage this project, someone poured in poisonous oils and lime so as to impede progress.
Quite unbelievable amounts of money were poured out, and often with very little chance of profit.
Here, water is thought to have poured from the mouths of bronze deer positioned in recesses around the font.
For feeding to opossums, oocysts were poured over 5-10 g of dry dog food that was quickly consumed.
I took the alcohol from one of the preparations, poured it into the water and drank.
The phenomenal wealth that poured from the desert changed forever the lifestyles of the people.
A very small volume of fixative (methanol 3 : acetic acid 1) was poured into the hypotonic solution.
A freshly prepared mixture of 3 volumes methanol: 1 volume acetic acid was slowly run onto the pellet and poured off; this was repeated twice.
Letters poured in from provincial towns and rural communities that faced comparable, if not worse, infrastructure woes.
Only then was the coal oil poured ceremoniously over his prostrate body.
One six-foot tall actor emerged from a two-foot high bucket and poured water out of it.
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