spray

Example Sentences

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Not everyone loves the dye, however, because the chemical sprayed on the snow can be a little warmer if it’s fresh and might slow a racer by milliseconds if he or she skis over it.

From Los Angeles Times

With the hip replacements, he’s limber enough to climb into the large machinery needed to harvest crops, spray pesticides, plant seeds and move hay bales that weigh roughly 1,000 pounds each.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tikriti suggested he could spray the person’s hair gray and give him a cane so he could look to be in his 60s.

From Los Angeles Times

I was like a dog that would go fetch Ms. W.’s stick, even if it was in a snake’s hole under a thorn bush that had just been sprayed by a skunk.

From Literature

For curling, ice sheets need a pebbled texture - this is where the surface is sprayed with water so the droplets freeze.

From BBC