spray
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They drive towards the danger to either deliver water or spray it themselves.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
When the wine was of poor quality or the weather hot, soldiers would dilute -- or "spritzen" or spray in German -- their drink with sparkling water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Pretti’s last act had been to try to defend someone from pepper spray.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Far easier to build the observatory of brick and to spray it with stucco, approximating concrete’s smooth contours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She’s got a broom, a mop, two buckets filled with supplies like rags and spray bottles, and a big glass ball dangling around her neck, like a necklace.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Nadira Goffe argues that watching the film in 4DX—which features, among other things, scents, moving chairs, and sprays of water—is the superior way to experience the epic adventure.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
She sprays “XO Kylie” across the billboard, gets back in her car, and leaves.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Small studies suggest these sprays may help memory or reduce brain shrinkage, but delivery methods remain a challenge.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Consumers can actually expect up to 10% more sprays, Axe said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Now every time Mami enters my room she sprays agua de violetas, violet cologne, all over me and mutters, “¡Quépeste!”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
Garden hose in hand, Georges Clivaz sprayed water along a road leading to his property in Saint-Jean-d'Illac in Gironde as the blaze burned a few kilometres away.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
In forward mode, water sprayed outward as it would from an ordinary lawn sprinkler.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Videos published by state media showed plumes of smoke billowing from the factory on Thursday, as firetrucks sprayed the building with water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Images from the funeral show mourners being sprayed with mist to keep them cool and medics carrying an elderly woman away on a stretcher.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Percy winced as cinders sprayed from the river, curling around his face.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Photos posted to Telegram by the state emergency service showed firefighters spraying water into what appeared to be a residential building.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Barcelona residents took to spraying tourists with water guns as Airbnb rentals exacerbated a housing shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Every summer, lawns fill with colorful "silly sprinklers," whose looping and twisting tubes send water spraying in unusual patterns.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The couple were pictured spraying champagne in celebration while holding their giant cheque, and Canty vowed not to give up his day job.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
A log shifts, spraying fire and ash upward.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
