overspread

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

The Pacific jet stream, meanwhile, lifts farther north — allowing warm, moist air to overspread much of the United States and set the stage for storms.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 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

“The worst of the storm will overspread the state later Monday night into Tuesday.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2016

“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

“To San Antonio!” repeated the judge, with an expression of great alarm overspreading his features.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

The child reached up her small, chapped hand and laid it on his cheek, cuddling closer, a shy, satisfied smile overspreading her face.

From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith

When she saw the gloom overspreading her brother's countenance, her snub-nose, too, made its appearance, and, finally, her entire lovely person.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

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