picture spread
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In February, an almost too-good-to-be-true picture spread across social media of a boy playing a trumpet to the extreme annoyance of a girl covering her ears and walking away.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2018
Once posted on Twitter and Facebook, the picture spread fast.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2016
“The thinking among them was probably, ‘Hey, this cat is cool, let him take your picture, spread the word.’ ”
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2010
Nobody intimidated the News; when an advertiser once demanded a picture spread on his Christmas display window, the paper responded by running a friendly story on his chief competitor.
From Time Magazine Archive
No wonder the poets grew wild at the sight, And sung of thy beauty with mad delight, Till the fame of the picture spread over the land, Revealing the touch of its master-hand.
From Love or Fame; and Other Poems by Sherrick, Fannie Isabel
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