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
An expression of whimsical wonderment and awe overspread his face as he drawled:
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
“I do not dream! I see the face of Lord Hamlet on this youth, overspread with Ophelia’s beauty and her truth,” he says in a tone of wonder.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
Then, dropping her eyes to the ground, she stood silent under the tree—her swarth complexion still further darkened by sombre shadows, now overspreading every feature of her face.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
"Nay," answered the Captain, a flush of anger overspreading his bronzed features.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
You hit Lawyer Blakeford?” he said, with a broad grin overspreading his face.
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
