How To Use Spate In A Sentence

I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.
Music has always had a tendency to glance back over its shoulder at the past, but the last few years has seen an unabashed spate of revivalism, from 60s garage rock posturing to the soi-disant Electro Clash phenomenon.
Jacqui looked at me, her eyes shining with not relief or left over fear or any other emotion instead she burst into a spate of giggles.
Milan: Operators reacted with frustration to a spate of new capital increase operations announced late last week.
Spate of mergers and acquisitions brings a bonanza for investment banks

But a spate of scientific studies has raised doubts about artificial sweeteners.
Two years ago, he admitted the police had been caught out by a spate of petty hooliganism, but this year he said police leave had been cancelled and extra officers would be on duty until Bonfire Night and beyond.
Still others have cautioned against the spate of monuments that they see as celebrating the cult of the personality.
The late 19th and early 20th century saw a spate of inventions which were to transform the lives of ordinary citizens of this country in ways hitherto undreamed of.
Even your humble correspondent succumbed to the spirit of anarchy, but the response my "crudeness" provoked gives me a few suggestions for investigators chasing leads on the recent spate of criminal harassment toward progressive elements. Archive 2005-10-16
Doctors have suffered a loss of prestige following a spate of scandals.
After years of staff downsizing, eliminating editors and staff checkers from the payroll - publishers seem to be having a spate of personal fantasies making it to print as Truth. Truth AND consequences
The bombing was the latest in a spate of terrorist attacks.
There has been a spate of cases in the U. S. in which people who run file-sharing sites or illegally share content have been ordered to pay fines.
Waves and currents sort these materials, and deposit them on a bar, spit, cuspate foreland, tombolo, or beach.
The plants are dark green and glossy; the leaves are tightly crispate when dry with the tips often circinate.
Congressional hearing last week about the spate of global recalls plaguing Toyota WN.com - Articles related to New York police cite driver error in Toyota Prius case
Just think of the spate of double centuries we saw last season, in addition to 2 triples and one quadruple.
Not for the easily shocked, his four-letter tirades - which prompted one walk-out - were interspersed by a spate of ingenious gags.
I am very concerned that this spate of accidents will continue unless state and local Government and the public at large report and police the shonks who are putting peoples lives at risk.
The Democrats are still reeling from a spate of retirements, most corrosively Evan Bayh's departure from the Senate, and scandals that have forced the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel, to step aside in addition to Massa. Has Obama Hit Bottom?
We wait for the spate of new data on the health of the euroland economies, we wait for the policymakers to come up with some device that satisfies the markets that the eurocracy has come up with a structure that controls national budgets to the satisfaction of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, euroland's paymaster-in-chief. Spain Can Still Avoid Financial Doom
In the wake of a spate of racist attacks, Lewis asks if the menace of racism simmers under the surface of the city?
Enough," he said suddenly, glancing up and interrupting Septach Melayn in full spate. LORD PRESTIMION
Five people within five hours needed medical attention after a spate of ‘accidents’ involving the inflatables.
In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
The linear to cuspate sinter rim locally projects up to 30 cm over the water surface.
Arran, Islay, Bute and Mull all contain lochs full of trout and also boast short spate rivers with good runs of sea-trout and salmon.
A spate of related movements tried to emulate his success.
Emily the Labrador disappeared in London just hours after Britain learned of a spate of dog thefts up and down the country.
The Effingham beach ridges are distinctive in that they show a series of cuspate forelands of dimension similar to Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral.
Their macrostructures are similar to those of present-day soils, with pseudo-anticlinal structures and cuspate structures comparable to those produced by the expansion and contraction of swelling clays.
The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots.
This cuspate foreland on Oak Island in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is one of many coastal features comprising the park's 17 significant sandscapes.
She said a ‘real spate’ of armed hold-ups, burglaries and car thefts had left the local community feeling scared and vulnerable.
They also call the Greek government and the European Union to take their responsibilities and give them rights of war refugees. cells of fire claimed, but only was "antifa", idiot! the cells never put mines anywhere and they also warn professional! diesen monat schwerpunkt griechenland im polit-cafe des ZIELONA GORA, berlin-fifihain, grünberger 73, ab 17/18 uhr essen und filme etwas später: De.indymedia.org newswire
A whole spate of lockouts followed, as employers dug in their heels and either dragged out negotiations or terminated them.
The 12-year-old test case may open the floodgates for a spate of litigation against local authorities.
The disjuncture between a flat but durable real economy and the spate of corporate scandals distressing a weak stockmarket gives a clue to what is really going on in US capitalism.
Police are warning people to make sure their houses are secure even when they are in them following a spate of ‘creeper’ burglaries.
A local farmer praised milk tanker drivers for their perseverance during the awful spate of bad weather.
But after revelations involving prostitutes, coupled with a spate of ungentlemanly scuffles on the football pitch his bankability could be in jeopardy.
However, these figures have been influenced by a spate of free CDs and other giveaways which have kept sales up.
In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
In 1989 and 1990 there was a spate of provocative articles on the country's past.
What started around this time last year as a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fulmination against an obscure bit of financial engineering—the reverse takeover—has grown into a spate of delistings, shareholder lawsuits and regulatory investigations amid auditor resignations, charges of accounting irregularities, and a short-selling frenzy. Happy New Year, China?
People are asked to be extra vigilant following a spate of serious burglaries and thefts all over the county.
We also went through a spate of "millennial" thinking, that quirky habit of the mind which finds special significance in numbers of years, and gets exaggerated as the numbers become portentous.
A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies which finally results in the death of a policeman.
Police are investigating a spate of muggings that took place on the campus last week.
The proposal follows a spate of food thefts from fridges around the College.
The recent spate of showbiz deaths only points to the fact that life, no matter how opulent or in debt, no matter how famous, infamous or unobserved is short and not always sweet. Steven Weber: Pop Goes the King
Consequently, the current spate of privatization is correctly viewed as a sort of minor epicycle in a massive trend that has been moving rather steadily in the opposite direction. David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC?
With greed left to take its course, a spate of scandals has erupted among foundations and charities.
He sent me to the dictionary several times for carr, scroll pond, procrypsis, coign, spates and zugunruhe. Meeyauw
Concentric folds of high amplitude, cuspate, and angular folds occur together in the Inner Foothills.
The provisional suspension of some constitutional guarantees came in response to a spate of murders blamed on the drug trade and turf wars over smuggling routes through Trinidad and Tobago, which is a trans-shipment point for South American cocaine headed to Europe and the United States. Trinidad reports mass arrests in crackdown on crime
They left a trail of destruction in their wake and caused thousands of pounds of damage during the spate of burglaries of homes and shops.
A regional sediment budget of cuspate foreland shorelines and the ‘missing’ element.
There has been a spate of incidents where bogus officials have called on the homes of elderly people.
Police have set up a special task force to combat the activities of teenage firebugs believed to be behind a spate of arson attacks in Chippenham.
This caused problems for drivers in the Birmingham area last winter, where there was a spate of thefts after owners had left their vehicles running with the keys in for a few minutes to warm up on frosty mornings.
Their macrostructures are similar to those of present-day soils, with pseudo-anticlinal structures and cuspate structures comparable to those produced by the expansion and contraction of swelling clays.
I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.
Extra bobbies will also be on the beat to patrol trouble spots in the borough after a spate of brick attacks on buses.
Of the sudden spate of mother-daughter movies only one contains any real surprises
A spate of viruses could force carriers to beef up their customer support staffs, which would drive up prices for all users.
Some of these riverbank cave entrances are submerged when the river is in spate making their underground passages subject to sudden flooding.
A glance at the current spate of hotel marketing deals makes it clear that tykes are wielding some mighty power.
Two Fox Movietone News clips of the cast and crew arriving and working in Japan and trailers for House of Bamboo and the rest of the recent spate of Fox film noir titles fill out this DVD.
Contrary to popular belief, though, this was at the bidding of the director, not the censors, after a spate of copycat crimes.
But when a Thames spate shifted these supports, Brunel secretly ordered his carpenters to leave a gap between the brickwork and the replaced shuttering.
However, he is concerned that the industry is about to erupt into a spate of brutal adventure movies.
Police are calling for motorists to be extra vigilant following a spate of car thefts and break-ins.
Over the past decade ambitious directors have brought a whole spate of twentieth-century novels to the screen.
The Government yesterday came under pressure to take action on street crime following a spate of carjackings and record levels of mobile phone thefts.
A spate of suicides in March and April in poor rural areas has drawn attention to the terrible social conditions and economic difficulties confronting farmers in many parts of Sri Lanka.
The bombing was the latest in a spate of terrorist attacks.
Police marksmen with Aborigine trackers were hunting for two dingoes or wild dogs who attacked the boys on Fraser Island, scene of a spate of attacks in recent years.
Police have warned trendy youngsters to take care with their designer baseball caps in a bid to halt a spate of thefts.
The measures follow the government's recent cuts in public spending and a spate of redundancies as it has sought to slash budget deficits for 2001 in excess of European Union limits.
A lot of postmasters and postmistresses are living in fear due to the recent spate of robberies.
The latest in a recent spate of docusoaps, it is bound to make compulsive viewing.
In 2002, there was a spate of vandalism, including one incident in which damage put at £1, 000 was caused to the open-air lido.
There's been a recent spate of intimidating text message cases brought up in court.
Oh and show me just how mature you all are by calling me more names, filthier ones please, the last spate of sophomoric abuse was too lame to even consider insulting. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
In winter, two mountain rivers flowing in spate from the great springs higher up mingle their torrents at a watersmeet in some deep ravine.
The most immediate problem is the spate of reckless and dangerously fast driving that has been taking place on a nightly basis.
This species is readily identified by its large flowers, strikingly striped sepals and by the greenish-brownish striped petals which are crispate.
At first glance, the spate of sex scandals involving sports stars appears to be nothing out of the ordinary.
In recent years, there have been a spate of field guides for birdwatchers, often confusing the ordinary birder with the changes in nomenclature.
He tomahawked the pitch and the ball had topspin and dipped into the lower deck and there is Pafko at the 315 sign looking straight up with his right arm braced at the wall and a spate of paper coming down. Underworld
The past week has seen a spate of bumper-sized property supplements and a flood of residential properties to the Dublin market.
Residents and business people have now rechecked their security arrangements following the recent spate of break-ins at a number of business premises in the area.
His mother, Doreen, has spoken out in the local Mercury newspaper about the spate of attacks.
The asymmetry of folds at shallower levels in the overburden sequence suggest that the original anticlinal ridges at the base of the overburden sequence were cuspate.
The comments produced another spate of recriminations and prophecies of doom from opposition parties.
In Malaysia, a court decision last year allowing a Catholic newspaper to refer to God as Allah, the Arabic word for God, sparked a spate of arson and vandalism against Christian churches. Christians In Iraq Flee North Before Christmas
Caesar also notes the druidic sense of the guardian spirit of the tribe, whom he translated as Dispater, with a general sense of Father Hades.
However, he is concerned that the industry is about to erupt into a spate of brutal adventure movies.
Indeed, the dams which impound the headwaters release a weekly dose of ‘compensation flow’, which delivers at least one artificial spate for your holiday, even with the sun beating down.
I predict that when the next in this spate of hijackings occurs the gunmen will reckon they have little to lose by fighting to the death.
There was a spate of complaints in the press recently about cable TV operators assigning Taiwan's three sports broadcasters into unpopular slots.
A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies, which finally results in the death of a policeman.
The early twentieth century witnessed a spate of father-to-father advice books and a growing body of essays and articles written by and for fathers in popular magazines.
Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox.
After a spate of attacks in March and April this year, bookmakers have become increasingly successful in fending off attacks.
‘You would imagine that some of the negative speculation about the market and the recent spate of lay-offs would have had some effect, but so far there is no sign of it,’ he said.
One section of the media gave too much spate to the proposed visits of some of the Hollywood stars, as if their coming was more important than the coming of millions of devout Hindu pilgrims.
The attempt to keep pace with ever increasing museum collections has resulted in a recent spate of building expansions worldwide.
Spate irrigation is called Deschek irrigation and it also includes the areas along the riverbanks, which are often called riverbank farms (5-100 meters (m) from river). Water profile of Somalia
It will be interesting to see whether this starts a spate of controversial videos in the next few months.
Celia was in full spate as usual, so I just sat there waiting for her to finish.
At times, reefs are identified by additional terms such as deltaic, cuspate, and reticulate. Coral reef
We recently renewed some of the fencing in the area to protect the sheep after a spate of injuries caused to them by uncontrolled dogs.
However, our recent spate of hot summers and mild winters seems to be redressing the balance somewhat.
As if she needed telling now, with the flare of union, the astonished fire of synapses momentarily blinding her, a storm of thought and memory, the two streams of thought rushing together like two rivers in spate, eddies whirling and pouring into one another, a great rush of starfire and darkness, knowledge and uncertainty— Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
Ms. Newman sees the more recent spate of shootings on college campuses as slightly different than the precollegiate incidents. Education Week American Education News Site of Record
This has been greengage week, with mine ripening in the garden and a spate of greengage-related dishes on restaurant menus, including a very tempting almond tart at Bayswater's Le Café Anglais. Nigel Slater's mushrooms with quinoa and chard, and baked greengages recipes
Cellphones don’t work here, enquiries about paying with VISA are greeted with crispated smiles and a barely audible “no… cash please!” Thekkady — Climb to the Stars
Police have warned homeowners to keep their eyes open for backyard prowlers following a recent spate of thefts outside homes in Bundaberg.
Drivers are being urged to take heed of the winter weather after a spate of road accidents in the West Mainland on Tuesday morning.
The spate of incidents have taken place over the last few days at Dovercourt Cemetery, off Main Road.
Police have warned householders not to leave easy pickings for burglars following a spate of crimes where property was stolen after windows and doors were left unlocked.
Lopez was suddenly pouring out an incomprehensible spate of words. HIGH STAND
Few distributaries are found in cuspate deltas.
During the last five years there has been a spate of muggings, violent attacks and arson at Moor Lane bus station.
Companies that could fail will most likely be those that are badly undercapitalised and already wounded by the recent spate of catastrophes.
Police and fire investigators are looking into a spate of suspicious fires in Braintree.
Gordon Ramsay is also behind a spate of searches for the term gastropub on the web this morning after an episode of his popular TV programme Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Web User : Internet & Technology News
A spate of profit warnings from high street chains is testimony to the impact of higher oil prices, increases in council tax, dearer mortgages and a squeeze on real income growth.
A spate of ministerial resignations, followed by a horribly panicked and botched reshuffle, is another piece of evidence.
Now there is a spate of plantings on higher ground, to achieve longer ripening - which produces wine with better acidity, more complexity and more minerality.
Or so say a spate of ads, books and websites that hail the emergence of the retrosexual, whose attitude and style hearken back to the strong, silent type of the '50s and early '60s. Archive 2010-05-23
Doctors have suffered a loss of prestige following a spate of scandals.
Police have warned residents to keep a watchful eye on their homes after a spate of break-ins
Tidal-estuarine, arcuate, cuspate, lobate, and birdfoot deltas have been mentioned in the literature.
As you all know, Mason Enterprises has been going through a spate of rough times as of late.
The riders staged a go-slow in protest after that event and something similar happened after a spate of crashes on a descent in the Ardennes during the 2010 Tour de France. Death of a cyclist – the tale of a tour and everyday risk
Over recent years there has been a spate of deaths in the area resulting from trampers becoming lost and rescue attempts proving difficult.
Technology stocks took a fresh battering after a spate of US profit warnings spread gloom across world financial markets.
1992 marked the quincentenary of Columbus' first landfall in America, and led to a spate of conferences, exhibitions, and books reflecting on the complex legacy of the Genoese navigator's voyage.
In any case, Punta Catalina is a truncate cuspate spit formed during the late Holocene.
Wiltshire police are urging owners of staddle stones to postcode their property after a spate of thefts of the now desirable items throughout the Gazette's circulation area.
Black Force and The Spout are two such sights when in spate, only visible after negotiating a ghyll on the old Westmorland-Yorkshire border as rifted as the Rishi Ganga Gorge in northern India. Country diary: Uldale Force
He slowed the car as he approached a water-filled gully which crossed the road in full spate. SANDS OF TIME
What began as a Securities and Exchange Commission fulmination against an obscure bit of financial engineering—the reverse takeover—has grown into a spate of delistings, shareholder lawsuits and regulatory investigations amid auditor resignations, charges of accounting irregularities, and a short-selling frenzy. China's Year of the Question Mark
Following the course of these small island spate rivers to where their journey ends and heather turns to sand is a fine way to fish.
Documents, purses and property were stolen in a spate of attacks.
Even model Naomi Campbell appeared at the last spate of runway shows in New York with a swinging dark-blond weave.
Transport bosses in the region are getting gritters and snowploughs ready and hospital accident and emergency departments are bracing themselves for a spate of accidents.
AS IF Scotland did not have enough on its plate with an unholy alliance of political machinations and a spate of injuries bringing expectations to an all-time low, the national team must now face France in Paris first up.
The Argentinian, however, followed up his communings with brief, furious spates of automatic writing with his remaining hand, a process I saw as analogous to my paintings. Duma Key
I think what has your daughter so alarmed is the recent spate of violent crime in the northern Baja corridor (Tijuana to San Quintin) that was directed at tourists. California Crossings
It turns out that there had been a spate of burglaries around the North West that all followed the same pattern. KICK BACK
Hassam Omar, a Somali refugee living in Pretoria, was attacked during the spate of xenophobic violence that rocked South Africa in 2008.
Police have arrested four teenagers following a spate of anti-social behaviour.
The worst inferno during that spate swept into the national capital of Canberra, where it razed 500 homes and killed four people.
Since its release in 2008, the mixture has occupied the medicine cabinets of famous beauties such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Laetitia Casta, Julianne Moore and a spate of Victoria's Secret models. Linda Rodin
Now, after having dabbled in the dark percussive arts whilst enjoying my teenage years, and a spate as the crash-cymbalist in our high-school concert band, it has been a while since i've hit the skins, so to speak. Ringo, eat your heart out!
The 75th anniversary of her birth falls on May 4, an occasion that will be celebrated with a season of her films at London's National Film Theatre, and which will doubtless inspire a spate of homages to her gamine elegance.
The recent spate of acronymania and do not write that as acronymphomania can be combated only by resolute ridicule. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Stow bank users should be on their guard following a spate of card cloning incidents at an ATM machine in the town.
That night saw one of the most ferocious spates of rioting in living memory.
A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the latest spate of shootings in Sheffield.
I expect there'll be a great spate of memoirs after the war. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Power bosses have agreed to replace underground electricity cables to help improve poor supply following a spate of power cuts in Westhoughton.
Caravanners have been warned to watch out for their vans after a spate of breaks-in at Bolton-le-Sands.
Indeed, according to a study published in Science in 2006, the number of wildfires since 1986 has quadrupled, and the area of forest burned has sextupled (when compared to the period between 1970 and 1986) -- the direct result, the authors say, of a spate of longer, warmer summers. Jeremy Jacquot: Are Southern California's Wildfires a Harbinger of Worst Things to Come Under Climate Change?
Malev has been the victim of a recent spate of bomb hoaxes and police are investigating.
Alliance leader John Alderdice held emergency talks with the security chief at Stormont on the recent spate of murders and sectarian attacks.
There will be a spate of midweek FA Cup replays following today's draw for the second qualifying round after three of the local clubs drew in Saturday's ties.
The heads of bays, spits, and cuspate forelands provide breeding areas for fish such as sand lance and surf smelt.
Contrary to popular belief, though, this was at the bidding of the director, not the censors, after a spate of copycat crimes.
A group campaigning for what it describes as the restoration of law and order in South Africa placed its hopes on Monday in the rightwing Boeremag organisation that claimed responsibility for the recent spate of bomb attacks in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. ANC Daily News Briefing
But following a spate of disappointment at the jeans unit, Matalan is in talks to sell it.
Directing 8 movies (only 5 of which are good) and writing a spate of mediocrities is hardly "unparalleled. John Hughes To Get Special Oscar Tribute | /Film
The upturned, crispate anterolateral margins of Rocacarcinus are seen in other genera within the family.
The World Health Organisation has warned of a rise in "untreatable" gonorrhoea, after a spate of multi-resistant cases were detected including in Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
Recently there has been a spate of robberies against senior citizens who go to the bank to cash their pension cheques.
It will be interesting to see whether this starts a spate of controversial videos in the next few months.
The tumult here of the combined roaring from Glendue Burn, which was in full spate, and the springs and sikes that were joining it was quite deafening and the air was filled with spray.
Transport bosses in the region are getting gritters and snowploughs ready and hospital accident and emergency departments are bracing themselves for a spate of accidents.
Hit by a spate of praedial larceny, Aranguez farmers are now using deadly pit bulls and Rottweilers to guard their food crops at night.
The recent spate of firings looks to be designed to preshape the structure of the law library for insertion into the main library's organization. Can Tulane Law Library Survive?
This follows a spate of car thefts from driveways last winter, where engines were left running to defrost windscreens.
The killings follow a spate of attacks on power stations and police posts in Kabardino-Balkaria, which is close to the Ingushetia region where rights group say Islamist militants and government forces are effectively at war. Jihad Watch
The New Zealand-born full-back notched a remarkable scoring treble of his own with his late spate of tries deciding the error-strewn match.
At times, reefs are identified by additional terms such as deltaic, cuspate, and reticulate. Coral reef
This autumn has seen a spate of high-profile full stops, marked by greatest-hits collections and line-up changes.
Critics say the new government's soft policy towards militants has led to the spate of attacks in the past three days.
A spate of prison suicides has highlighted the terrible state of Britain's penal system.
They have reacted with a mixture of dismay and anger to the spate of legislative activity aimed at banning overseas outsourcing or offshoring of government contracts.
A cuspate foreland, ‘Flakket’, is situated in the Northwestern corner of the island.
A spate of industrial action, following rising inflation, led to secondary school strikes at the end of last year.
At times, reefs are identified by additional terms such as deltaic, cuspate, and reticulate. Coral reef
The change in the government's stance came after a spate of unfavorable newspaper editorials and commentaries.
Two years ago, the cemetery suffered from a spate of vandal attacks and several tombs were damaged.
Security patrols and closed-circuit television cameras are being spruiked as a possible solution to crime in Glebe after a spate of robberies and vandalism attacks.
Indeed, the current American spate of interest in apocalyptic prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery.

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