How To Use Spread In A Sentence

In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
The result of such rack-rent can only be evil, abuse and neglect of the soil, deterioration in the character of the laborers, and a widespread sense of injustice. VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.

I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
So in terms of home furnishing it is expected to have curtain, bedspreads, cushion covers etc.
Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.
Severe paruresis in school aged children can also lead to complete school refusal by the child, as well as more pervasive anxiety that can spread into other areas of life, such as social anxiety or even panic attacks. WebWire | Recent Headlines
We may still be able to save Las Vegas, as it is encysted by libertarian Nevada... but San Francisco, I fear, is already seething with the RED VIRUS, which has spread to it's outer "Bay Area" provinces, such as Mountain View and other Silicon Valley cities. Obama's Commie Mama
Most seeds are spread by the wind.
Genital infections are spread venereally, and respiratory infections usually by inhalation.
I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
This period provided a favourable environment for the spread of communism.
The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
The cake won and the news spread like wildfire. Times, Sunday Times
Then she spread out a beautiful hand-stitched quilt on the grassy green ground. Eliza’s Freedom Road
But on the gender front, the sex ratio among children up to age 6 dropped to 914 girls for each 1,000 boys from 927 a decade ago, showing that female foeticide continues to be a widespread practice because of a traditional preference in some communities for boys. India Passes 1.2 Billion Mark
In addition to the usual bug fixes, the update is said to add not only a web browser and an email program, but a word processor and a spreadsheet.
For once I controlled myself and didn't berate her as a feeling of dread spread through me. THE EXECUTION
A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
the news spread rapidly through the medical community
Deuterium is a relatively insensitive nucleus because it has a low gyromagnetic ratio and the spectral intensity is generally spread over an extremely wide frequency range due to the quadrupole interaction.
Poor sanitation always leads to the spread of disease and to deaths from infectious diseases. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. The Sun
Inevitably, though, with 14 fewer rooms to spread out in, the Pages had to part with several cherished possessions.
Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
Therefore, credit spreads tend to zero for the short-term debt of a solvent firm.
Actually, this particular strain of e. coli is going to be more likely to have been spread by humans, manure (even the so-called organic stuff) or animals, than water. Spinach
With the clearing of forests and the spread of farming, the cowbird's range expanded north and east.
The nurse tried to catch drips before they hit the bedspread and wiped his chin after every other spoonful.
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
The plagues of aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and ethnic tension are still widespread.
She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
Rub in the butter with the hands, then add the low-fat cheese spread and work in with the hands.
As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
The newspapers were spread out over the big worktable under the windows, heedless of the smudging printers ' ink. DEATH IN FASHION
So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
While a radiator has one relatively small hot area, the underfloor pipes range the full span of the floor, and this greater surface area mean that the pipes don't need to be as hot and the heat is more evenly spread.
There's more room to spread out in first class.
A recent customer survey showed widespread ignorance about the availability of organic food.
When I sat up again, I felt a pleasant glow spreading from my shoulder down to my elbow, and I found that the arm had complete freedom of movement again with almost no pain.
Concerns have been raised that these mosquitoes may spread to the UK from traffic coming in from France. Times, Sunday Times
Using the VCC spreadsheet tool, The Journal's Hank Sims "twiddled" with the numbers and found hand-counting "wouldn't be all that time-consuming or costly" ( "Town Dandy," Aug. 2). www. Getting the Election Watchdog Message in the Media
The master feel good mind manipulator is saddened by her wayward "Jesus" and must come reining down to spread her pixie dust and re-christen the Annointed One. Oprah Winfrey to tape Christmas special at the White House
One in 10 asthma deaths in Scotland is due to inadequate treatment and widespread ignorance of the condition among health staff, a damning new report has revealed.
Rebuilding the aglet that allows cells to divide helps those cancer cells reproduce and spread. You Staying Young
The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck. Times, Sunday Times
Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
During a quiet moment on the expedition, Emma gazes at the Surrey landscape spread out before her.
Later translated into Latin by Boethius around 500 AD, Aristotle’s influence spread throughout Syria and Islam whilst Christian Europe ignored him in favour of Plato.
To illustrate this I want to put a bar chart and a table from the spreadsheet in my word-processed document.
These changes serve as the background for the spread of crack cocaine in Germany as well.
The teacher told his pupils to spread out and not to bunch up in the center of the playground.
It confirmed that opera lovers were most likely to spread their favours across the art forms.
Without marketing or communication, some consumers in early markets reacted strongly and spread the word virally to markets that did not yet have the diaper. Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
Then came a game of bluff with his club spread over two weeks. The Sun
She felt her eyes widen; undirected, her hands spread over his chest as he drew her to him. THE PROMISE IN A KISS
The river blockaded the spread of the forest fire.
The splendor of the ancient calligraphical productions of Greece, [79] and the still later ones of Rome, bear repeated testimony that the practice of this art had spread during the sixth century, if not earlier, to these powerful empires. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
Her head spun and her vision blurred from the effort but through the confusion she could see a faint light spread out from her hand and wash over her body.
But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake.
Doctors are worried about the possible spread of the disease.
There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt. A Year on the Wing
I'd use Italian dressing because you need less Italian to spread over your salad compared to ranch dressing.
I don't know what Dave means by "episcopacy" either, but there's widespread scholarly agreement that the monarchical episcopate wasn't universal early on. Triablogue
Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
Dr Dick Shaw explains how a tiny plant-eating predator can fight the superweed spread BBC - Ouch
The statutory powers will enable local authorities to seal off areas under their jurisdiction to prevent the disease spreading.
They were actually hemmed in by cattle grids at each end of the village, he pointed out - and there were disinfectant mats at each entrance to prevent the spread of infection.
The Tomlinson report's description of the inadequacy of primary and community health services in London commands widespread agreement.
Still can spread stick use at outside wall illuminative is small ceramic tile, but the attention does not change balcony outboard color, lest make local lose harmony with whole building.
I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
Once prepared, the file can be transferred to and used on any computer with the spreadsheet program.
There are some events in history that impact the world so hard their ripples spread out through years and decades.
Illiteracy is widespread among the poor.
More extensive staging revealed multiple vertebral lesions consistent with metastases, but no spread to abdominal viscera was visualized.
Pickles has earned widespread plaudits since taking office for his energetic and radical approach to reforming local government. Times, Sunday Times
The separate dish of butter was hard and consequently difficult to spread - a minor difficulty.
Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
S'sahr barked an order and there were groans, but the troopers spread out keeping eyes open for any traces or tracks.
But if it spreads to other distant organs, the cells have taken a trunk road through the blood or lymph system. The Sun
But what had caught the Bo'sun's horrified attention was not the furniture but the two men who lay spreadeagled on the floor. SAN ANDREAS
There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign.
The Hill's liberals will count it a successful session if they can scratch up a billion or so out of the defense budget, add in the money freed up if, as expected, Carter's counter-inflationary "real-wage insurance" plan is defeated, and then spread the dividends among the hardest-hit programs. The Politics of Austerity
Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30
Because of the widespread use of this Worcester sauce to flavour other foods, we may find further affected products.
Spread 2 separate diseases are these dropping destroying banana and plant plantain crops in Africa.
(PLAYG) A highly contagious disease, such as bubonic plague, that spreads quickly throughout a population and causes widespread sickness and death. Plague
Back in her room at the Station Hostel, she spread the contents across her bed. CHAMELEON
Increasing temperatures will aid the spread of water-borne diseases, and those carried by insects, it predicts.
In a world with a chronic 'globesity' problem spreading beyond western shores to places like India and China, products that promise to help individuals manage their weight via calorie control, fat burning, satiety, or some other mechanism, enjoy rampant demand. FoodNavigator-USA RSS
Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, in big houses in big subdivisions.
There is also fresh evidence of the widespread rejection of GM foods by consumers.
She spread some laughter by describing the residents in the affected area as 'pure boggin' and 'hummin'' due to the lack of clean water.
Spread a baking sheet with foil and lightly oil. Times, Sunday Times
However, for the sake of discovering and spreading truth, rather than dogma, I did an independent study of the past two postseasons using the game logs available at Retrosheet.
Those of us who remember the 1970s recall the frolics sparked by America’s last great experiment with widespread price caps – namely, those on oil and natural gas. Day Two: the Speaker and House Majority Leader Back Away from ObamaCare | RedState
A dazzling light was spread through the air, along the whitish hills strewed with cylindric cactuses, and over a sea ever calm, the shores of which were peopled with alcatras, * (* A brown pelican, of the size of a swan. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
When we glance over the history of flagellation and realize that, though whipping as a punishment has been very widespread and common, there have been periods and lands showing no clear knowledge of any sexual association of whipping, it becomes clear that whipping is not necessarily an algolagnic manifestation. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
It is spread through sexual contact with sores, which Mercer called chancre ulcers, that typically are painless. The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
These days, the rasher is spreading beyond the borders of breakfast and into dishes as varied as bacon martinis and bacon ice cream. Friday Open Thread (Blog for Democracy)
Journal in 1839, at about the same time the term OK appeared: “That lawyer has been trying to spread the wool over your eyes.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread.
The result is a dull ache in your chest which may spread to your jaw or left arm. The Sun
Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
The belief that acid secretion declines with advancing age has been widespread.
There were many whispers and rumours spread about each other and the friendship ended. The Sun
The slaughter and butchery of 200 cattle and the consumption of 40,000 kilos of beef, even if spread over a year or two, suggest the participation of many communities, perhaps from a whole clan or tribe.
There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Finally the realistic significance of spreading engineering quantity list valuation is given.
All this guerrilla artwork reflected the widespread belief that it was the IRA that had pulled off the heist.
However, even after we adjusted for these additional factors we still found an approximate doubling of risk of death from cancer among people with widespread pain.
One must choose either the particle mode, with localized positions, trajectories, and energy quanta, or the wave mode, with spreading wave functions, delocalization and interference. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Tomorrow's edition will include a centre-spread on the Spanish royal family.
The patient kneels on the spread (B) prepared for her; this consists of a sheep-skin (S) covered with a cotton blanket (C) and a zarape (Z). Labor Among Primitive Peoples
The mould is spread on top of the ants' trap to reinforce its structure, as it hardens into a fibreglass-like material.
The company's leaders — and fun brand personality — help to lure in "evangelist" consumers who further spread the word about the brand, says Popchips investor Alex Panos, managing director at TSG Consumer. Popchips CEO Keith Belling is 'poptimist' on healthy snacks
Widespread protests have placed the President under serious pressure.
As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats.
Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the His Masterpiece
According to company officials, Owen has gained widespread recognition as a Western painter of fine art, and his work in gouache captures present-day working cowboys.
These acne cysts can rupture, spreading the infection into nearby skin tissue.
This way good, bad and indifferent teachers will be spread out. Times, Sunday Times
The effects of this policy spread far beyond children now at school.
For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
With a foul bottom we're only making 5 knots and I can't turn quickly enough, so we do a flying gybe, break a spreader on the main, almost throw the guests overboard, lose some cushions, douse sails, and tuck into Lameshur Bay, St. John.
Conclusion: The incidence of sexuality is high in minority nationality fe male college students and there exist the problem of promiscuity , pregnant and spread of STD.
Tank battalions, which supported infantry divisions, were at times broken up and spread over a whole division.
They would know that their statements are going to be subject to widespread scrutiny, rather than just skewed media scandalmongering.
Americans of this time spread their Hallowe’en celebrations from the 31st of October until the morning of the 3rd of November, a period know as Allhallowtide. Hallowe’en In the Gilded Age | Edwardian Promenade
My current processor is a 2 ghz Pentium M in a laptop, so I'm not sure at all what multiple cores actually get done in the real world, and am having trouble finding such info. posted on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9: 05 pm coelomate wrote: Say I have two monitors (19x12 and 16x10) up and rocking, and decide to have an instant messaging program, iTunes, a spread sheet, a word document, and firefox all running. The Tech Report: News
Internationally, there is widespread concern with a break down in community values in developed countries and unacceptable levels of isolation, loneliness and social disintegration, to which Ireland is not immune.
Hayes breathed out in reverence as he watched the day spreading across the planet.
Some, called runners, spread exuberantly, and others are classified as clumpers, which slowly expands from the original planting.
the expectation was spread both by word and by implication
The government decision to back out has also been met with widespread criticism by civic chiefs.
They tried to freeze the gangrene from spreading.
No. No, thank you very much," he said, backing away from Miss Larkins ' little table spread with objects of divination. CHARMED LIFE
During the Cold War, the US needed Japan to act as a bulwark in Asia against the spread of communism.
The earthquake caused widespread damage to property.
The birds spread across a rising slope of snow furrowed with ditches worn by thousands of penguin feet.
This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. Gabriel Rotello: Deadly Error Alert: Andrew Sullivan's Latest AIDS Fantasy
While knowing total expenditures in lobbying is good I would like to see some breakdown as to where all of that money is going, to see exactly whose pockets are filling as a result of the largess being spread around. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » $3.47 billion spent. Did you get a pony?
HIV is a lethal contagious disease spread by contact with blood and body fluids.
Choose a type of spread that's lower in saturates than butter.
The valley spread out beneath us.
Spread tomato puree over bases then sprinkle oregano on top. The Sun
In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
Torture of political detainees became widespread and systematic after the assassination of President Sadat in October 1981.
Grill the bread on both sides and spread the top thickly with mustard.
It is also a widespread constituent of a variety of igneous and metamorphic rocks and is occasionally found in pegmatites and in related veins marginal to igneous rock units ranging from granite to diabase.
He told it, stringing it out while the three spread their blankets and collected a pile of firewood for the night. A Plague of Angels
Pushers peddle drugs hidden inside cigarette boxes spread out on the sidewalk.
The Phnicians spread this androgynic worship over Greece. Arabian nights. English
Will their taxes repave our pot-holed roads or halt the spread of suburban shanties caused by a grotesque housing shortage? The Sun
Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
However, some people can have an immediate and more widespread allergic reaction, such as an anaphylactic shock and this can be fatal.
Your enthusiasm is infectious; it spreads as rapidly through conversations as it does through bloodlines.
If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward.
He leaves office with near-record-high approval ratings despite widespread abhorrence at his personal behavior, pollsters say.
Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier. A Pro-Growth Strategy
When she puts the pen down, a little ink drops off the nib, spreads into a blue mark on the paper and makes the word Mitzi invisible. NPR Topics: News
Others spread on the working area of the dental material service and oral hygien.
The sun shone brightly through the spreading leaves of the oak trees that surrounded the court.
They lapped against the outspread hands of a solitary girl, whose dusky hair rose and fell with the water.
An olive grove is alight, fire spreading in the dry heat, and the hillside is consumed by flames. Times, Sunday Times
Why, he asks, does wearing the swastika attract widespread scorn, while no one blinks at the person wearing a hammer and sickle on his baseball cap?
a socialite's life † heidi montag and spencer pratt were busy spreading a message of 'grope' - ugh! popsugar † mischa barton is Friday October 24 2008 @ 7: 55AM Popbytes
The trouble then spreads to town centre takeaways with incidents of criminal damage and violence.
Once each clump grew to about 500 metal atoms, the platinum catalyzed its own growth and formed large, branching sheets that spread over the surface of the liposomes.
The villagers hated them, and spread malicious gossip about their immorality and irreligion. Times, Sunday Times
At around the same time engineers struck and formed a workers' committee which spread its influence to other industrial centres.
The course takes forty hours, spread over twenty weeks.
They knew how disease was contracted and spread and how to disinfect surgical instruments and wounds with carbolic acid.
Public opinion in March, 1861, was so unsettled, the popular mind so impressible, that a spirit of discontent soon began to spread over the loyal States on the part of those who had hoped for what they termed a vigorous administration. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
The company said it wants to move spread betting away from bookmaking and geared toward private investors and small institutions.
The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.
The reassessment is the latest signal that the Obama administration is willing to re-evaluate the health impacts of chemicals that have been in widespread use. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Each bit has a home, like paint spread thickly across a canvas instead of in globs dropped here and there.
Not only has the idea of schooling spread across the globe but, argue world culture theorists, schooling all over the world takes the same general form.
Because of the widespread use of this Worcester sauce to flavour other foods, we may find further affected products.
Dense leaf pubescence is widespread among plants growing at very high elevations.
Amy then extended her arms and spread her legs to increase wind resistance, and Kevin was able to catch up with her.
The nettles had spread and now covered half the garden.
Zoey pointed upward to their right to a large, light-colored bird whose wide wingspread showed off dark patches on the wings and tale. Devlin’s Light
Online gambling and spread-betting are now the highest risk areas of addiction for problem gamblers, according to a survey published yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Spread the stuffing mixture evenly over the joint, but do not overfill. Times, Sunday Times
better sanitation in Haiti, to "minimise the spread of the new south Asian strain, and the virulence genes it carries, beyond the shores of this Caribbean island".
The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.
Her ashes were spread over the sea.
Historically, the prospect of energy savings drove widespread embrace of daylight savings.
There was widespread collusion between bank officials and customers.
POISED with its wings spread out in the air, the gannet was the ideal subject for Javier Martin’s photograph. Hanging About For the Perfect Photograph | Impact Lab
I just don't see the joy of going around spreading your stupidity and immaturity.
Dances spread from theater stage to the average family realizes public communication recurring to the camera lens, which followed by the high-tech developmental television.
The process continues to spread outward, triggering successive generations of fewer and fewer stars.

How To Use Spread In A Sentence

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