spray

Example Sentences

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Border Patrol’s Use of Force policy permits officers to deploy “less-lethal devices,” including pepper spray, for crowd control when protesters act violently or aggressively in ways that suggest they could physically injure officers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another wave crashed in the room below, and water sprayed up through the stairwell, sloshing on the upstairs carpet.

From Literature

Crucially, the artist did more than simply spray pigment around a hand pressed to the wall, the researchers say.

From BBC

If it was your cat, you would probably try to clean it up a little, but you probably wouldn’t whitewash it and then spray it with super.super-hold hairspray, which is what the Herdmans did.

From Literature

As a child, he watched his father and grandfather spending hours riding their tractor to sow seeds and spray crops.

From BBC