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How to use spray in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Spray means a fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. Example: “The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”

Examples of spray by meaning

nounA fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

  • The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
  • A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και...

nounSomething resembling a spray of liquid.

  • Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171

nounThe allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a...

  • One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

nounA loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.

  • On match days he could give a good spray, and in many ways he was an old-fashioned coach, having learned a lot of his approach from Ron Barassi.2008, Robert Harvey, Harves: Strength Through Loyalty, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN, page 119
  • Expectations of what they will put up with have changed and a big spray probably doesn't have the effect it used to have.2008, Kevin Hillier, Rocket Science: The Biography of Rodney Eade, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN, page 151
  • He could give a bloody good spray, Bricey,' Cook says.2018, Paul Amy, Fabulous Fred: The Strife and Times of Fred Cook, Melbourne Books, →ISBN

verbTo project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.

  • The firemen sprayed the house.
  • Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters.

verbTo project in a dispersive manner.

  • Spray some ointment on that scratch.
  • The water sprayed out of the hose.

verbTo project many small items dispersively.

  • The sprawl of sheds like Magna Parks 1 to 3 are a particularly vivid measure, because they host the final moment of relative stasis for millions of products that are then sprayed out to homes in every direction.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
  • Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18

verbTo allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that...

  • to spray the heap of a target process

More sentences with spray

  • The pranksters activated the fire alarm by spraying deodorant next to it.From the entry activate
  • These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.From the entry bug
  • The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.From the entry pepper spray
  • If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.From the entry snout
  • The depleted aerosol can spray no more since there was no propellant left.From the entry depleted
  • I sprayed a clearcoat over her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.From the entry clearcoat
  • The fridge door is grimy. Please wipe it down with some spray cleaner.From the entry wipe down
  • I need to spray my house for termites.From the entry for
  • The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray.From the entry rust
  • The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture.From the entry rust
  • The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself.From the entry acrid
  • As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism: spray paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.From the entry vandalism
  • A constellation of blood had sprayed onto the wall.From the entry constellation
  • We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.From the entry toll
  • It's hard to keep hair in a specific hairdo when you just spritz only a little bit of hair spray.From the entry spritz
  • The police used a PAVA spray on the suspect.From the entry PAVA
  • YouTuber Chris Fix keeps a spray bottle of soapy wooder handy while he is repairing and cleaning cars.From the entry wooder
  • You should cover your mouth when you cough so you don't spray spittle all over an unlucky coughee.From the entry coughee
  • The boat was overdashed with sea spray.From the entry overdash
  • I sprayed freshener around the bathroom.From the entry freshener
  • This can of bug spray says that it is nontoxic to humans and pets and that you should periodically reapply it to your arms and clothing as needed.From the entry bug spray
  • "Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation."From the entry malathion
  • The three-year-old I babysit always spits on me when talking. I know he doesn't mean it, but telling him "say it, don't spray it" just doesn't work.From the entry say it, don't spray it
  • Trailing diamond sprays of ice, he glissades fearlessly across snowfields that plunge into blue infinity.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry gird
  • Woven khus curtains or screens are typically hung in doorways or windows and sprayed with water.2025 July 14, Sushmita Pathak, “The Aromatic Roots Indians Turn to for Cooling Relief”, in Reasons to Be Cheerful, retrieved 14 Jul 2025. From the entry khus
  • A dusty bottle of multipurpose cleaning spray, blue roll, a sad grey J-cloth, furniture polish.2023, Alice Slater, Death of a Bookseller. From the entry blue roll

Meaning of spray

  1. noun A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
  2. noun Something resembling a spray of liquid.
  3. noun A pressurized container; an atomizer.

Full definition of spray

Questions about spray in a sentence

How do you use spray in a sentence?
Spray is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”
What is a short sentence with spray?
“The firemen sprayed the house.”
What does spray mean?
Spray means a fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spray (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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