Spraying is an English word with synonyms like coating or application. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Spraying in a sentence
Related words
Spraying meaning
present participle and gerund of spray
Synonyms of Spraying
Using Spraying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of spray
- Useful related words include: crop-dusting, coating, application, small indefinite amount.
- In the example corpus, spraying often appears in combinations such as: and spraying, spraying the, by spraying.
Context around Spraying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spraying
- In this selection, "spraying" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aerial, seen, thermal, machine, main and techniques stand out and add context to how "spraying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hammer spraying the glass and accused of spraying the chemicals. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spraying" sits close to words such as bordering, breasts and bt, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spraying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Farmers are advised to reschedule the spraying of insecticides". (9 words)
Rangely has practiced ground spraying, while Meeker has used aerial spraying. (11 words)
In that instant, blood is seen spraying above him and he collapses forwards. (13 words)
I digress to Akeley because he came up with what is still a widely used construction process called “shotcrete,” which involves spraying concrete onto armatures of rebar and metal mesh, then carving or troweling the wet concrete by hand. (39 words)
I feel like the current plan as presented doesn’t clarify the decision-making process for selecting a treatment strategy, and leaves an open-ended possibility for decades of aerial spraying of herbicides using drones and helicopters, without oversight. (39 words)
The manual spraying is said to have been preferred as a way of minimizing the risk of large-scale destabilization of the delicate ecosystem that comes with aerial spraying through introduction of foreign chemical elements into the park. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Keep the compressed air can upright when spraying to prevent the compressed liquid from spraying out.
Several young men of the panchayat could be seen spraying a disinfectant solution with the help of spraying machine used in the paddy fields to kill agricultural insects.
The manual spraying is said to have been preferred as a way of minimizing the risk of large-scale destabilization of the delicate ecosystem that comes with aerial spraying through introduction of foreign chemical elements into the park.
Rangely has practiced ground spraying, while Meeker has used aerial spraying.
In the U.S., farmers have had success controlling insects by spraying with hot water at a cost that is about the same as pesticide spraying.
Thermal spraying main Thermal spraying techniques are another popular finishing option, and often have better high temperature properties than electroplated coatings.
A 26-year-old male guard at Kakogawa Prison in Hyogo Prefecture was sent to the prosecutors last May, suspected of instructing an inmate to open his mouth and then spraying hand sanitizer into it.
After pepper spraying Watley through his open window, the deputies broke another window and one of the deputies entered the cab of the truck.
An MTA train conductor was also injured Saturday when a perp shattered a Bronx subway window with a hammer, spraying the glass in her face, police and sources said.
A San Francisco gallery owner who was caught on video spraying a homeless woman with a hose was arrested and will be charged, authorities said Wednesday.
A sentencing hearing for Julian Khater, accused of spraying the chemicals, will be at the same time.
Farmers are advised to reschedule the spraying of insecticides".
From spraying to lighting mosquito-repellant candles to hanging traps, we just can’t seem to get rid of those pesky critters.
He explained that every time he got excited or cried, his hands would start spraying snow everywhere and Violet said that she had the same thing.
He recently did furniture for a boat, stripping everything down to the bare wood and spraying numerous coats of exterior finish made for boats.
He said the spraying had created sufficient vapour to pass under the adjoining door and poison the couple during their 10-hour exposure to the substances.
Ice spraying from their skates 100 Mile House Wrangler Jace Myers is chased by Sicamous Eagle Colby Agyeman.
I digress to Akeley because he came up with what is still a widely used construction process called “shotcrete,” which involves spraying concrete onto armatures of rebar and metal mesh, then carving or troweling the wet concrete by hand.
I feel like the current plan as presented doesn’t clarify the decision-making process for selecting a treatment strategy, and leaves an open-ended possibility for decades of aerial spraying of herbicides using drones and helicopters, without oversight.
In that instant, blood is seen spraying above him and he collapses forwards.
Common combinations with spraying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and spraying 19×
- spraying the 16×
- by spraying 12×
- of spraying 11×
- spraying of 11×
- spraying and 11×
- spraying it 9×
- aerial spraying 8×
- the spraying 8×
- for spraying 8×