overspread
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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
Widespread rising motion looks to overspread the Atlantic by the first or second week of August.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 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
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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
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But a deadly pallor overspreading her face had proved to me that my exertions to reassure her would be fruitless.
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
There was one sunset when the overspreading of violet clouds would have shut out the day quite, but that the canopy was not closely adjusted to the low barrier of forest to the westward.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
A man well-known to him—one he hated, yet feared, as could be told by the scowl instantly overspreading his countenance, along with a whitening of the lips.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
“Well?” he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face.
From Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn