overspread
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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
Widespread rising motion looks to overspread the Atlantic by the first or second week of August.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 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 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
He was looking out of the window, through the leafy bough of the overspreading chestnut-oak, at the deep, transparent water in the pond.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
The boys, too, with broad grins overspreading their faces, crept forward on tiptoes to listen.
From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Millicent Schwab Bender
A branch of a tree overspreading the water catches his attention.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
So mournfully and tenderly he writes and speaks, the shadow of that sorrow at the centre of his life overspreading the whole world with darkness to him.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
