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overspread

[oh-ver-spred] / ˌoʊ vərˈsprɛd /












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To the east, tropical humidity will reign, but desert air will overspread areas to the west.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022

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

"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

An expression of whimsical wonderment and awe overspread his face as he drawled:

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018

“I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but——” She stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

The boy slid from the chair and out of the door, ecstasy overspreading all the freckles.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh

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

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

It was discovered under the wide overspreading boughs of a clump of firs which had so grown that a perfectly clear and covered area in the center provided a Nature-made house.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy


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