Sentence examples for spraying from inspiring English sources

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spraying

noun

The act by which something is sprayed.

  • The parched lawn needed several sprayings before the grass looked green again.

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Early on, back when Underwood was a hungry whip who'd stab his own grandmother if it would inch him closer to power, you'd see him indiscriminately spraying bullets around at clusters of enemies in Call of Duty.

In many ways this was actually a very defensive budget, adapting to and neutralising Labour attacks, spraying out some one nation-style quasi-egalitarian rhetoric to cover up the stubborn smell of self-serving privilege clinging to the Tory brand.

Three weeks ago, they dealt the final blow, spraying the area with glyphosate weedkiller and instantly terminating the farm's organic status.

A second category, known as solar radiation management tries to lower the amount of energy entering the Earth's atmosphere from the sun by, for example, spraying sulphate particles into the stratosphere or whitening clouds.

UK plans to grow herbicide-tolerant GM crops commercially were abandoned in 2004 following the farm scale evaluations, which showed that blanket spraying with weedkillers destroyed important habitats for birds, butterflies and other wildlife.

In the footage, Hawke himself seems to be in a state of something approaching ecstasy – perhaps not surprising, given that he'd been personally leading the pre-dawn party, conducting the crowd in choruses of Waltzing Matilda and spraying them with booze.

As the final whistle went Barcelona's players gathered in a circle, substitutes and squad players sprinting to join them, and danced while Gerard Piqué began spraying the Catalan cava.

Curled up with a book, I heard boys come and go, spraying her and her sisters with water.

Despite extensive scrubbing, spraying and layering with Odor-Eaters, my desert boots were secreting such a toxic whiff that they had to be thrown away.

They are spraying.

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Was it the campus police officer in Davis, California, casually pepper-spraying a line of seated protesters?

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