Sentence examples for rather spread from inspiring English sources

"It got rather spread abroad too much".

Performances are rather spread out over this period, and there is not too much focus.

"I suppose I have to dwindle [the shape of a hill] down to the palm of my hand," she wrote in a letter to Auden; "I would indeed rather spread myself out to its height and length".

In quantum theory, objects like electrons or cats have no definite position or properties before they are observed or measured, but are rather spread out over all space in a cloud of possibility known as a wave function.

Many cisgender people are so uncomfortable with the idea of trans bodies that they would rather spread widely debunked myths about pernicious "bathroom predators" than accept the basic human rights of transgender people.

If you go into a racetrack with $100 in your pocket, would you rather spread it over a half-dozen live races or have the chance to bet on 30 races around the country?" The state has given its surviving thoroughbred tracks, Monmouth and the Meadowlands, an infusion of $11.7 million for prize money, or purses as it is called in horse-racing parlance.

Saratoga Springs is a slow-moving rather spread-out town of 13,000 inhabitants, some 30 miles north of Albany, and for a good many years it has been famous chiefly for three things: its mineral springs, it August season of racing and its two huge Victorian summer hotels, the Grand Union and the United States.

Rather spreads himself thin.

By segregating and isolating the most at-risk places, crime is not corralled, but rather spreads more effectively.

Nor did he have a tent, rather spreading out a horse-blanket under him and setting his saddle under his head, and all his retinue did likewise.

Adding that the entire community has been discussing, or rather spreading, this false piece of damaging gossip, yet, not one person had approached him to ask whether there was any truth to the rumor.