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

“To San Antonio!” repeated the judge, with an expression of great alarm overspreading his features.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

“Well?” he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face.

From Midnight Webs by Fenn, George Manville

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 Reid, Mayne

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)