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overspread

[oh-ver-spred] / ˌoʊ vərˈsprɛd /












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The winds will be fierce through the Central Valley, where air funnels easily between the coastal ranges and the Sierra Nevada, but will also overspread the Bay Area, Central Coast and Southern California.

From Seattle Times Oct. 12, 2021

The Pacific jet stream, meanwhile, lifts farther north — allowing warm, moist air to overspread much of the United States and set the stage for storms.

From Washington Post Feb. 25, 2021

"Poverty and disgrace," Hamilton wrote again, "would overspread a country which with wisdom might make herself the admiration and envy of the world."

From Salon Sep. 19, 2020

“The worst of the storm will overspread the state later Monday night into Tuesday.”

From Washington Times Jan. 31, 2016

“I do not dream! I see the face of Lord Hamlet on this youth, overspread with Ophelia’s beauty and her truth,” he says in a tone of wonder.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

I went to him and saw that his eyes were sightless; already a thin film was overspreading them.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

“Must you tell her?” asked Mr. Stuyvesant, an odd expression overspreading his kind, strong face as he looked into the little girl’s eyes.

From Three Little Women A Story for Girls by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

You hit Lawyer Blakeford?” he said, with a broad grin overspreading his face.

From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

Sir Thomas did see—sharing the other’s alarm, but without showing it—a sheet of water that shone silvery white under the moonlight overspreading all the plain below.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

But a deadly pallor overspreading her face had proved to me that my exertions to reassure her would be fruitless.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various




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