Sentence examples for spread astonishingly from inspiring English sources
The United Nations body that combats the blight, UNAIDS, says the virus has spread astonishingly fast, from less than 1% of South Africa's adults infected in 1990 to almost a quarter of them today.
Word-of-mouth spreads astonishingly fast here and if, like me, you're sniffing around for promising new plays, you can arrive to find a long queue for a show on at a noxious venue you'd assumed would be playing to an audience of three befuddled tourists.
In the early 80's, word began to spread that an astonishingly good Pomerol was being made from a tiny vineyard just down the road from Petrus, and with the 1981 vintage Le Pin began to take on cult status.
(The relevant section starts from 26 minutes into the lecture; she addresses the astonishingly rapid spread of obesity in America, and discusses its effect on life expectancy from 31 minutes onwards but do watch the whole thing if you have the time).
But today, a story resembling "a really low-budget horror film" is playing out there, with billions of monsters (tiny ones) spreading in a "crazy" (or astonishingly organized) way with a killer instinct (for other ants, and oddly, for electronic equipment).
A few managers swear that some assets are cheaper than ever, and that "spreads" (the difference between prices) are astonishingly wide.
Firing waste into the nuclear fireball of the sun, meanwhile, would be astonishingly expensive, and a launch accident could spread radioactive material over a wide area.
Inevitably, word spread among the other partners that Pierce had renegotiated his guarantee on astonishingly favorable terms, even as the partnership continued to struggle.
Word spread in the music world that an extraordinary new talent had arrived; Rattle called him "the most astonishingly gifted conductor I have ever come across".
It was astonishingly delicious.
