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
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
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
"No!" cried Taras, a deep flush overspreading the pallor of his face.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
The boy slid from the chair and out of the door, ecstasy overspreading all the freckles.
From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh
