spray
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He also recommends misting your skin with a spray bottle — “like a bottle you use to spray your plants with” — every five or so minutes, keeping your skin visibly wet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
The officers tried to calm the situation but then used pepper spray.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Is a student behind it, or did some adult sneak into our school with a can of red spray paint?
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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WSJ | Buy Side: Get a summertime glow, no matter the season, with these expert-recommended self-tanning mousses, sprays and drops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
All of this had the effect of making a monstrous chute where the water fought and roared to get through, smashing around the rocks in huge sprays of white water.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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In forward mode, water sprayed outward as it would from an ordinary lawn sprinkler.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
He took the same relaxed view about his latex puppet in the satirical series, Spitting Image, which mocked his slight speech impediment and sprayed saliva when it spoke.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Many shop fronts along the route were boarded up, with the plywood then sprayed with graffiti.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
And in 2026, I was sprayed with beer, hit it in the head by a flying paper sombrero, and watched El Tri win its opening game with a 2-0 victory over South Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Mia sprayed the counter and swept the sponge across it, corralling crumbs into the sink.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
His family tried to save their home by spraying it with garden hoses until firefighters arrived.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
Whenever they felt liquid spraying down from the stands, they could only hope it was beer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
He took his monocle from the chain and struck it against a rock, spraying hungry sparks over the pile of tinder.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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