spray
noun
water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.
unsprayed
-
a word derived from
spray.
Example Sentences
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Biologists found only 24 bird and five mammal species in those areas, far below normal in unsprayed forests.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
In a 2016 study in a Swiss forest, researchers sprayed some trees’ leaves with a particular isotope of carbon and found that isotope showed up in unsprayed neighbors.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023
The cows are outside all year round, grazing unsprayed land.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2021
Madison’s general rule is that you don’t need to peel cucumbers with thin, unwaxed and unsprayed skins.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020
Otherwise even unsprayed crops may take up enough insecticide merely from the soil to render them unfitT for market.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
