Sentence examples for spraying like from inspiring English sources

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Every step must be measured and certain weapons kick back like firecrackers, the bullets spraying like a leaky hose.

As the Mississippi shifted its course over the millenniums, spraying like a loose garden hose, it deposited sand and silt in a wide arc.

The first of these, for insecticide, required the future Princess to run about, "smiling like an idiot and spraying like a demon," as she put it, but, sadly, no whiff of it lingers.

Take, for example, his reaction to the tricky playing surface at Wimbledon this year — a swampy, capricious turf that was even more difficult than usual, skidding bounces (and nonbounces) spraying like shrapnel; every stroke an adventure.

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Humans, real people, lugged on to plastic sheets and sprayed like so many cattle.

Sometimes the sprinters were splashed and sprayed like baseball players celebrating a pennant.

Before One Direction, the hair of the young, male population was a sad affair – flat and unremarkable, or sprayed like it was in a Schwarzkopf advert.

Overhead the fireworks will pop and spray like champagne and everyone will laugh at your jokes, even though you've never been very funny.

They could care less if I'm getting sprayed like a cockroach".

Her texts spray like buckshot.

The first time a young bull scuttled past her, Wena Poon told me, "the sand sprayed like little gold pieces, flicking against my leather boots.

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