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Verb
Remove grates and avoid spraying any of the electrical or heating components, including the knobs, directly.—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2025 You won’t get sprayed, and the bananas are there for the taking.—Vanina Marcote, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
Yet aerosol sunscreens remain popular among consumers — 26% of the sunscreens tested were sprays — despite potential inhalation risks and the difficulty of providing even and adequate coverage with a spray, Andrews said.—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 20 May 2025 In addition to in-wash laundry sanitizers, spray and aerosol fabric sanitizers can clean non-washable fabrics, such as upholstery.—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for spray
Here, a twig fence and rough-hewn steps lend structure to a path while looking at one with the lush landscape.
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Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 May 2025
The addition of new species and novel analyses are constantly reshaping that evolutionary tree, and sometimes the category changes shift more than just a few twigs but entire evolutionary branches.
Each performance won over the critics, built a large base of devoted fans and, yes, included lots of spit, but more about that in a bit.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
Chronology is messy, structurally and visually and viscerally, playing with time and space and memory and oozing with bodily fluids — tears, spit, sweat, come, pee, blood, vomit.
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