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 knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but——” She stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

The sun was still shining brightly when they started from Ligny-en-Barrois, but it was now growing dark from the overspreading clouds, and as soon as Toul was sighted the lieutenant turned the machine northward.

From The Boy Volunteers with the French Airman by Kenneth Ward

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

“Well?” he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face.

From Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

From that time forward Mrs. Ryle kept silence with her husband, as she did with others; but the roots of the project grew deeper and deeper in her heart, overspreading all its healthy fibres.

From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood