Sentence examples for spraying off from inspiring English sources

The trombonist and singer Clyde E. B. Bernhardt, who appeared with Mr. Johnson and the McShann band at the Savoy Ballroom in New York, recalled in his memoirs that Mr. Johnson "was exciting to see" and "had a way of soaking his slick hair with a wet towel before one of his wild solos" so that the water would "come spraying off like sweat".

The Mets exhaled after something other than a single sprayed off their bats.

He has seen Keith Richards' internal organs routinely placed in a large perforated pan next to his (Keith's) body and sprayed off with hot, soapy water.

Outside, power-washing equipment drowns out the pounding of the waves as workers spray off old paint from the brick facade.

But such rockets are finicky because the fuel must first be persuaded to travel up a small needle, from whose tip the ions are then sprayed off into space.

"When the arena is so hot the balls just spray off all over the place," the 31-year-old said.

As we enjoyed the mist that sprayed off the thundering falls, our guide got to work cutting down banana leaves, laying them out as tablecloths and unpacking a splendid meal of cooked aubergine, fresh salad and omelettes.

Simply sponge the leaves with a solution of one part dish-soap to 20 parts water and then spray off with clear water.

Sometimes what looks at first like the weathered wrinkles of a wise man is really just a layer of grime that you could spray off with a hose.

Even so, he also proved that no matter how many good guys with guns you have around, when a crazy person can spray off 700 rounds in a minute, he only needs a few seconds to do plenty of damage.

(Nor did I hear hikers who went without repellent complain of bites). Aesthetically, oil of lemon eucalyptus was preferred over DEET by three out of four hikers who sprayed Off! on one arm and Repel on the other.