"Whereas the oil industry may find it business as usual to have a certain number of spills, it is really not acceptable, especially in this day and age.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Some prints look like layers of colorful spills of paint.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It shouldn't be best practices to have spills in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, in the Yellowstone River in Montana and potentially in the future in the Ogallala aquifer which would be crossed by this new proposed Keystone XL pipeline."

VOA: special.2011.07.08

In the poem "Mending Wall" the speaker and his neighbor walk together along a wall, repairing the damage caused by winter weather: Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast...

VOA: special.2011.04.17

Switzer says that the industrial nature of gas drilling, with heavy truck traffic and noise, and occasional wastewater and chemical spills,has transformed their peaceful country life.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Too often,the run-off spills directly into local waterways.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"Because a film like this can appeal to people who want to go for their thrills and spills and their big action spectacular and it will appeal to people who want to go and be stimulated intellectually.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16