overspreading
Example Sentences
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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
Otmar rose from his knees, a deep blush overspreading his handsome countenance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
“To San Antonio!” repeated the judge, with an expression of great alarm overspreading his features.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various
The girl's long dark hair fell around her in loose masses, overspreading and almost inundating the low canary-coloured divan of soft Oriental silk on which she was reclining.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
She looked up at him with a kind of wonder in her eyes, and with that "fiery rose" quite suddenly overspreading her face again.
From My Little Sister by Elizabeth Robins
