Sentence examples for spread a pall from inspiring English sources

A barge offloading gasoline at an oil depot in Staten Island exploded with earthquake force yesterday, shaking businesses, homes and nerves for miles around as towering black smoke spread a pall over much of New York City.

This case is sure to cost Merck and its insurers billions in damages and may spread a pall of legal liability over other drugmakers.

The fire has burned more than 27 square miles about 6 miles northwest of Tajique since Tuesday and spread a pall of smoke as far as Denver.

The police responded with tear gas canisters that spread a choking pall over the crowd.

They spread a fringed pall over his grave, and called him a Saint.

Gentrification; the housing crisis; asset-stripping by foreign interests; untameable capitalism; the loss of communal spaces; a spreading pall of gloom.

Large volcanic eruptions spread cooling palls through the stratosphere.

However, visitors to the shrine report that Mr Sadr's Mahdi Army fighters were last heard trading stories of angels who spread palls of smoke across the sky to protect the faithful from helicopters and echoing their leader's apocalyptic pledge to "fight until the last drop of blood".In this section Decision time in Sudan No angels Things fall apart?

A pall, a sense of disbelief, spread through racks of Dale Earnhardt T-shirts, Earnhardt racing jackets and Earnhardt seat cushions, through the toy section with its stacks of Earnhardt "No.

But the speed with which billions of dollars of value had evaporated on this development kept a pall over the sector and spread into other Nasdaq sectors as well, analysts said.

Just as positive people spread their cheer to others, difficult people can cast a pall over a room when they walk in the door.