sprayed

Example Sentences

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Wearers, often young men, get people to sign fake petitions or retail workers to smell candles sprayed with bad odours.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

You can shop organic food and grow your own tomatoes, but a stiff breeze can blow the Roundup your neighbor sprayed on his lawn directly into your face.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

He said he sprayed gallons of Roundup almost every week in his more than 20 years working as a landscaper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The farmers did what they always did: They sprayed and sprayed, chemicals and pesticides, stuff so powerful that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Mami has also put some of her lipstick and rouge on me and sprayed hair spray in my hair to make me feel more grown-up.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez