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How to use spree in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Spree means uninhibited activity. Example: “The anonymous vandal was blocked after going on a vandalism spree.”

Examples of spree by meaning

nounUninhibited activity.

  • Then all three major builders were called upon to deliver 105 Berkshires before the buying spree was over.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam’s Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 27
  • Twitter has been on a hiring spree, spending $630 million on stock-based compensation in 2021, a 33 percent increase from the previous year.2022 April 25, Kate Conger, “Twitter Employees Search for Answers as Musk Deal Takes Shape”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

More sentences with spree

  • The anonymous vandal was blocked after going on a vandalism spree.From the entry vandal
  • The antigaming campaigner argued that violent shoot-'em-up games led to killing sprees in real life.From the entry antigaming
  • He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.From the entry arrival
  • He was the top suspect in the downtown crime spree, and these robberies fit in with the pattern.From the entry fit in
  • Players often tilt when they're on a losing spree or frustrated with the game.2022 September 2, Gökhan Çakır, Harrison Thomas, “How to get better at VALORANT”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023. From the entry tilt
  • Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.2021 January 8, Nicole Hemmer, “The striking parallels between the assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol”, in CNN. From the entry infraction
  • That hasn’t stopped the government from going on a spending spree.2011 July 16, Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe, “In China, loans lure city officials”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry spending spree
  • And so the wealthy are going blingless and eschewing the spending sprees of the recent gilded age.2008, Newsweek. From the entry blingless
  • During an impromptu shopping spree, Aunt Jewels and a dog named Maggie May are kidnapped and dog napped respectively.2006, Terry I. Miles, DOG Gone Christmas: A Cozy Little Murder Mystery, page xiii. From the entry dog nap
  • Harrington’s hero was Major Deon Terreblanche – notorious for his killing sprees. ‘He was actually like my father.1998, Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull. From the entry kitskonstabel
  • Following this example, seven communes and more than ten county agencies began a spree of building new offices.1982, Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, “China's New Social Fabric: Views of Inside from Outside”, in Harrison Brown, editor, China Among…. From the entry Sanho
  • Breivik’s killing spree was “largely anger, because I feared that his actions would harm not just Norwegian ethnonationalism but white nationalism around the world.”2019 November 4, Liam Stack, quoting Greg Johnson, “American White Nationalist Is Arrested in Norway”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry ethnonationalism
  • News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun.2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die. From the entry beta
  • The 22-year-old had killed six people in a shooting and stabbing spree in Isla Vista, California, before turning a gun on himself.2018 August 29, Jim Taylor, “The woman who founded the 'incel' movement”, in BBC. From the entry Isla Vista
  • Amidst a multitrillion dollar spending spree, President Obama apparently believes it’s inconceivable that a mighty nation such as the United States could go broke.2009, Jim Powell, How a Rich and Proud Nation Went Broke. From the entry multitrillion
  • It is unclear if they were still chained from two days earlier or if Cho had rechained them before he began his shooting spree.2009, John Nicoletti, Sally Spencer-Thomas, Christopher Bollinger, Violence Goes to College: The Authoritative Guide to Prevention and…. From the entry rechain
  • An ATV-riding Texan was a massive problem to Tesla owners when he allegedly rammed his 4-wheeler into multiple cars during an unprovoked hit-and-run spree on Tuesday.2025 March 27, Nicholas McEntyre, “Texas menace accused of ramming mini 4-wheeler into parked Teslas in chaotic spree”, in New York Post. From the entry allegedly
  • After years making do with the sales rack at JCPenney we were flying up to New York and Chicago for spending sprees, buying ourselves diamond chains and gold watches.2008, Jermaine Dupri, Young, Rich, and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul, page 3. From the entry pop tags
  • A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.2014, John Dickson Carr, Most Secret. From the entry cloudful

Meaning of spree

  1. noun Uninhibited activity.
  2. noun A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic.
  3. verb To engage in a spree.

Full definition of spree

Questions about spree in a sentence

How do you use spree in a sentence?
Spree is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The anonymous vandal was blocked after going on a vandalism spree.”
What is a short sentence with spree?
“He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.”
What does spree mean?
Spree means uninhibited activity.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spree (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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