How to use "spread" in a sentence

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

Panic spread all over London

He knocked on the doors of people's houses, but news of his arrival had quickly spread and nobody would offer him shelter from the cold

Madeleine's arrest spread quickly around the town

And so she goes to her husband as the flames spread over his body, and she watches

Cham spread his hands

Another one! The news had spread about Pod Life, and other students had been discussing it all weekend

"We can't spread this news any further

As a huge smile of delight spread over his face, she felt suddenly weak all over.

She spread a thin skin of peanut butter on them, poured a glass of nonfat milk, and sat at the table.

A chill spread from the base of his spine, up his back, as he realized what the presence of these men implied about the accident that had killed Danny.

Tina looked out the side window, watching in disbelief as the flames spread from the shattered garage roof to the main roof of the house, long tongues of lambent fire, licking, licking, hungry, bloodred in the last orange light of the afternoon.

Elliot swung the car around and started back toward the lights of the city, which spread like a vast, glowing fungus on the black desert plain.

"Anyway, even if we're spread a bit thin, it doesn't matter much

"Maybe if we can get a map and spread it out..

Elliot and Tina spread the map on the table and sat down across from each other.

Fear spread tendrils through her and rooted her feet to the floor.

Thick clouds of smoke or dust, which looked like little grey, moving spots through a powerful telescope on Earth, spread through the clearness of the planet's atmosphere and hid its more familiar features.

At about eleven, a company of soldiers came through Horsell and spread out in a great circle around the common

A similar tube was given to each of the three, and the seven spread out at equal distances along a curved line between Weybridge and Ripley.

This rose up in a cloud shaped like a hill, then sank and spread itself slowly over the surrounding country

So, doing it methodically, as a man might kill insects, the Martians spread this strange killing smoke over the country towards London