How to use spread in a sentence. To cover or reach a wider or increasing area, or to make something do this To draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed byout ). See examples of spread used in a sentence. The land masses spread until there was an ocean between them If you spread something somewhere, you open it out or arrange it over a place or surface, so that all of it can be seen or used easily
She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it. [~ + object] spread the blanket under the tree [no object] the blanket will spread far enough for both of us to sit on it.
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