Words similar to spate

Example sentences for: spate

How can you use “spate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A front-page LAT story reports that military authorities, concerned by a recent spate of public Lewinsky-driven criticisms of President Clinton by military personnel--in service-oriented publications and in the WSJ and on the Internet--are threatening service members with punishment if they utter "contemptuous words" about their Commander-in-Chief.
This is the latest in a spate of high-profile exhumations.
The paper ticks off the spate of other similar arrangements struck recently--Best Buy and Microsoft, Circuit City and AOL, Kmart and Yahoo, Radio Shack and Microsoft--and nutshells the point: giving online concerns access to the still-huge number of offline homes while jumpstarting the struggling Web presences of traditional retailers.
An example the LAT gives is the recent spate of web sites that facilitate the sale of Viagra to those logging on and filling out a questionnaire.
The city has a new sense of vitality, with a spate of new architecture, art galleries and chic shops and restaurants.