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How to use the word SPRAYING in a Sentence?

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The influx of spending is like nothing we've ever seen before. I would have expected that to be potentially a little bit more measured, but it has been completely like literally a runaway train, they were sort of spraying money everywhere.

Peter Laatz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Be more discerning with exactly what you are looking for instead of just spraying your resume and praying that someone will see it and hire you.

Marlo Lyons

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of people said that they sprayed this on their pillows at night before they went to sleep, to give them a nice fragrance -- so you can imagine that there are, there are uses of this, even beyond just spraying in a room, where it might bring someone in very close contact with the bacteria.

Jennifer McQuiston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road, for a moment it felt like the highway was covered in blood. I turned away and put down more crosses.

Hugo Castro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you go to the canal you see a bunch of homemade floatation devices. It's such a violent gamble, and people are consistently willing to do it. a tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road.

Hugo Castro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s very hard to design a government program for the whole U.S. economy that is effectively targeted that doesn’t leave lots of people out, the checks are like spraying water against the fire: sometimes you just need water.

Neel Kashkari

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The worst dioxin-contaminated site in Vietnam is Bien Hoa airbase, which is 30 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City, after President Nixon ordered the U.S. military to stop spraying Agent Orange in 1970, this is the site where all the Agent Orange barrels remaining in Vietnam were collected. The barrels were processed and shipped to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, where they were incinerated at sea in 1977.

Ken Olson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It got cooked onto the muffler, just spraying out there slowly and brought me down, that started flashing to let me know I had a serious problem.

Michael Robbins

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The only thing Japan can do now is to prevent North Korean fishing ships from entering and for the Japanese Coast Guard to continue to use methods such as spraying water to keep them out.

Satoru Miyamoto

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The fact that a tractor and row-crop oriented company such as John Deere did this means it won't be long before corn or soybean farmers in the U.S. Midwest will start using precision spraying.

Jeneiv Shah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have a lot of water, a lot of areas that have plenty of mosquitos breeding. We will go and do some spraying until the populations go down.

Mustapha Debboun

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I thought that spraying the guy was the least damaging thing I could do, in my left hand, I had a flashlight. My other option, other than the pepper spray, was to break this guy’s teeth. OK? And I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted him not to hurt me.

Christopher Cantwell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The propane tank also caught on fire and started spraying everywhere and added to the chaos, it made it burn a lot more. When it exploded, everyone started getting really worried because there was just so much fire on the side of the house.

Ford Cleveland

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The one showed in the video is nothing like what we have conducted before, there should not be any water spraying or making the kids wade in a muddy pit—let alone involving a snake.

Selamat Dahalan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Beehives in New York City are healthier I would say then the beehives in the Midwest. There is little to no spraying( of pesticides) on top of buildings, no chemicals interfering with their ins and outs.

Andrew Coté

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If you're releasing mosquitoes for doing control and on top of that you have to do mosquito spraying, then in a way you're killing your investment, you're releasing mosquitoes that cost money but at the same time you cannot stop helping people. So how this integration of genetically modified mosquitoes works in the context of ongoing control activity, I think it's still an open question.

Emory University

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The thing begins to fire, and it begins to jump and buck all over the place, your first human instinct is for your hands to clamp down, and you clamp down on the trigger, and if the thing has a 32-round magazine ... it starts spraying all over and people get killed.

Steven Howard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I started with a bunch of ice blocks, and spraying water, and pasting snow.

Creator Brent Christensen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These masked people were spraying the classrooms without telling the school administration what the chemical was they were spraying and without saying why they were masked, so we won't be sending our children to school for the moment.

Idrissa Diallo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

Masanobu Fukuoka

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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