Example Sentences

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Attrition has spread its staff thin, making it difficult to keep up with its other responsibilities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Now it has spread to a forested area where health workers, who are already coping with short supplies and local suspicions, dare not venture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

It is also regularly offered to people with early-stage breast cancer that has spread to the nearby lymph nodes.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

In the space of several weeks, the outbreak has spread to several provinces nearby and on to Ugandan soil, with the World Health Organization declaring the epidemic an international emergency.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

Little by little the gypsy moth has spread throughout New England.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson