How to use "spreading" in a sentence

She'd bumped straight into the man, who'd dropped a bagful of dried food packets, spreading them everywhere.

A blood-red light was spreading across the sky

The theater was shaped like an enormous fan, spreading under a high domed ceiling

You're spreading yourself too thin

Dombey stared thoughtfully at the spreading frost

There were one or two carts with refugees going along Oxford Street, but the news was spreading so slowly that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of people taking their usual Sunday night walk

There were shouts of fear, the guns suddenly left behind, men on the ground struggling to breathe, and the fast spreading of the dark smoke - a silent black cloud hiding its dead.

And over the blue hills to the south of the river, the Martians moved backwards and forwards, calmly spreading their poison clouds over one piece of country and then over another