Sentence examples for spreads by from inspiring English sources

robbiae, spreads by both roots and seed.

It spreads by rhizomes and has reddish flowers.

A virus spreads by replicating itself into as many hosts as it can find.

As Christakis and Fowler (along with other researchers) have found, obesity spreads by contagion.

The bacterium prefers to live in rats and spreads by hitching rides on rat fleas.

The idea spreads by word of mouth, across the Internet and at alternative energy fairs.

Spearmint is a perennial plant that aggressively spreads by creeping stolons.

"Things work in close proximity, and it spreads by word of mouth," he said.

The Wych elm, Ulmus glabra, is atypical in that it does not sucker, but spreads by seed.

(A meme is anything — an idea, a phrase — that spreads by imitation from one person to another).

Quaking aspen is distinguished by its leaves, which have more-pointed tips, and spreads by rhizomes (underground stems).