Sentence examples for my spate from inspiring English sources

Credit goes to my Kiwi mother-in-law, Mary, for my spate of experimental savoury cake baking.

In this spirit, I'd like to apologise to WH Smith and Boots for my spate of teenage shoplifting – nicking, among other things, several Agatha Christie books, and a Mr Men bath sponge for my little brother because I was too tight to pay for a Christmas present.

"I was bloody lucky, let's face," Audrey later confided a few weeks after my initial spate of interviews with Stanley, as I was putting together a biography of him.

I wish they'd all leave so I can make my usual midafternoon spate of personal calls.

"When I was first finding my way there was a spate of coming-of-age films, but I had already come of age.

On the other hand, Bryant called his recent dunk against Houston "one of the special moments of my career" because of the spate of physical ailments he'd experienced.

The next evening, after I have emptied the tubes -- I've taken my son to see the spate of recent vampire flicks so the sight of blood doesn't phase me, thank you Stephenie Meyer -- I feel satisfied that I can leave my mother and I head to the airport.

There has been a spate of birthdays in my office recently and it has put my back up.

Every time someone re-tweets one of my jokes, it sets off a spate of fretting about reciprocity.

Until 2008 that was a hard row to hoe among many of my friends, but that recent embarrassing spate of financial cataclysms have made it much easer.

My neighbour's 18-year-old son, Freddy Moody, was among those stabbed to death in that terrible spate, across the road from my front door, in July 2008.