: the quantity that spills: material lost or scattered by spilling
Examples of spillage in a Sentence
The design of this travel mug helps prevent spillage.
Recent Examples on the WebThe true total of the spillage, however, has not yet been determined.—Li Cohen, CBS News, 17 May 2024 These bamboo cutting boards also feature juice grooves to prevent spillage.
5.—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024 Adding salsa to the mix only compounded the situation, requiring an abundance of napkins to manage the resulting spillage.—Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2024 An iPhone case protects it against spillage, abrasive surfaces, and shock.—Dua Rashid and Jorge Jimenez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024 Check out our editors' favorites for sprucing up their bathroom spaces while curbing water spillage.—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 4 Mar. 2024 The floor and all the containers in the storage area hallway had food spillage, the report said, and inspectors saw that the walk-in fan covers and all the shelving weren’t properly sanitized.—Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024 So far in 2024, nothing has approached the level of on-set chaos as the nefarious fart noise that came after an epic water spillage at the Hot Topics table in early 2023.—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2024 The chain swings with the movement of the bag, which helps to reduce spillage.—Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
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