spraying
Speech parts
1. spraying - Noun
2. spraying - Verb
Meaning
the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer
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Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All these little doses of emotion. Someone's always spraying the air with their mood.
I woke at 9:57 having got to bed at 6:30 subsequent to spraying burning guitar over David Bowie's new album and not leaving the studio until 5:00.
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.
According to officials, spraying for adult mosquitoes will usually occur between midnight and dawn.