Spread

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"Spread" in a Sentence (37 examples)

A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.

Fanned by a strong wind, the fire spread in an instant.

The cancer has spread to her stomach.

Can we check the rapid spread of the 'flu?

We should check the spread of the disease.

The fire spread out in a fan-shape.

The fire had spread to the next building before the firemen came.

Fanned by the strong wind, the flames spread in all directions.

The fire spread throughout the house.

A fire can spread faster than you can run.

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He spread his newspaper on the table.

I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.

I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

As the Erzurum affair indicated, the janissaries in the provinces and in the capital city were in close touch, and thus the movements were quick to spread to Istanbul.

I placed my hands on his cheeks, and this time, I kissed him. “Don't worry, I'm not going to let anything spoil our day. It's just you and me.” A sad smile spread across his face, and I could tell he wanted to believe me, but didn't.

The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.

I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.

She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.

He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.

to spread a table

And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread. / And then, because their hall must also serve / For kitchen, boil'd the flesh, and spread the board, / And stood behind, and waited on the three.

This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread, bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.

Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?

I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread, spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)

No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.

November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.

- Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.

Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.

Ferd liked to experiment with sandwich spreads ― the one he liked most was cream-cheese, olives, anchovy and avocado, mashed up with a little mayonnaise ― but Oscar always had the same pink luncheon-meat.

Johnston, meanwhile, has managed to get within five miles of its target, and fires a full spread of ten torpedoes. Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano. First blood, unbelievably, therefore, goes to the Americans.

The spread is usually measured using standard deviation and variance.

College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.

You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator. That's flawed logic.

In my first year on the circuit, I learned to spread and did decently well. I won most of my rounds, not that I could tell you how I did it.

If debate is a game, then the execution of a "spread" is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents' arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.

It's one L ur chillin just keep practicing read the ballets figure what you did wrong and practice with improvements in mind, get better at spreads and k theory debates.

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