1. My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.

2. Last year saw an outpouring of cookery books.

3. All this public outpouring is so undignified.

4. The news of his death produced an instant outpouring of grief.

5. Why take outpour frustration on the flight attendant?

6. The outpour of ash from Eyjafjallajokull caused the largest closure of European airspace since World War II, with losses estimated at between 1.5bn and 2.5bn euros.

7. His death at the age of 35 has occasioned an outpouring of grief.

8. He would...use binoculars to decipher from where he stood that outpour of illicit affection.