[
UK
/spɹˈeɪ/
]
[ US /ˈspɹeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɹeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a jet of vapor
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a quantity of small objects flying through the air
a spray of bullets - a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying
- water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall
- flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage
- a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist
VERB
-
be discharged in sprays of liquid
Water sprayed all over the floor -
scatter in a mass or jet of droplets
spray paint on the wall
spray water on someone -
cover by spraying with a liquid
spray the wall with paint
How To Use spray In A Sentence
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
- I have sprayed them a couple of times with soapy water, which kills some of them but doesn't harm beneficial insects like ladybirds.
- Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
- Mycoinsecticides are fungal sprays that work on insect pests from the inside out.
- It came packed not in peanuts, but covered in spray foam insulation. My Night Stand Came Packed In Spray Foam Insulation - The Consumerist
- It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
- Spray the fountain, then fire a rocket at the Bowlarama.
- The Second Battle of Niagara Our dreams exceeding by thy bounteous spray.
- Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
- The possible effects of iron on adsorption, microcolony formation, mature of colons and desorb were explained, and the prospect of clinical use of local iron or chelator spray was also reviewed here.