spray
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Speers, from Bude, Cornwall, denied having items with intent to cause criminal damage and said he abandoned the idea to spray "Palestine" on the lawn by the time police approached him.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Cabs can now smell like Axe body spray, a Dunkin’ latte or Downy fabric softener.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sea spray, clouds, and snow all look intensely white because their structures scatter visible light extremely efficiently.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Use a spray bottle, for example, to mist water directly onto a person’s face, neck and forearms, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Then I spray the bins with air freshener and put in new bags.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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Buying candles, diffusers and room sprays "can help create a warm, cosy atmosphere, especially as we move into the colder months".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
A former electrical engineer who moved from his native Kentucky to take a defense job, Montgomery founded the company in 2023 with an eye toward getting pesticide sprays out of suburban yards.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 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
Supplements, sprays and red-light masks promise “real results!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Mr. Cantor found two beautiful sprays of orchids, which Grandma Sadie artistically arranged around the new top layer.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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“I kind of sprayed the ball a little bit,” Skubal said after a 6-5 win over Kansas City in his Dodger Stadium debut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
At the Zurbatiyah crossing, large fans sprayed mist to cool the heat as pilgrims passed portraits of Khamenei, his son and successor Mujtaba, and other slain commanders from Iran's so-called "axis of resistance."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Fifteen elephants found dead in southern Kenya outside the Amboseli National Park are suspected to have been poisoned by eating tomatoes that had been sprayed with pesticides on nearby farms.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The storage bricks will provide industrial heat once again as the beer is pasteurized, and steam is sprayed over the bottles to kill microorganisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Luckily, everyone in the community rushed to donate new furniture and art and worked together to cover up the horrible words that had been sprayed on the walls with fresh coats of light gray paint.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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At one training company visited by AFP, humans holding what looked like PlayStation controllers repeated a single task -- folding clothes, moving blocks, spraying a canister -- as humanoid partners mirrored their actions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
In Barcelona—which last year received nine times as many tourists as it has residents—protesters took to spraying water on tourists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Farmers can then be advised to delay spraying their crops, so expensive chemicals are not just washed away.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
A cab skids past me, spraying an additional forty gallons of puddle water onto my pants—the only things, so far, that had remained relatively dry.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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