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
Discussion: A tropical air mass will overspread the Mid-Atlantic as a warm front lifts north during the morning hours.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 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
An expression of whimsical wonderment and awe overspread his face as he drawled:
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
“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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So mournfully and tenderly he writes and speaks, the shadow of that sorrow at the centre of his life overspreading the whole world with darkness to him.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
"Why compare him with St. Udo Brand?" asked Margaret, with a sudden flush overspreading her cheeks, vivid as carmine.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore
“Well?” he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face.
From Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn
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