Example sentences for: spree

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

  • Case closed: Alleged "spree killer" Andrew Cunanan , who was being hunted by the FBI for the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace and others, killed himself.

  • We're pleased that Her Gwyneth-ness had the opportunity to splurge; no doubt she had to recover from the traumatic experience of being promised a Beverly Hills shopping spree by new boyfriend Guy Oseary, only to have him take her to Niketown, where (according to the Star ) she "settled" for $400 worth of sneakers.

  • Situated near Inselbrücke on the south bank of the River Spree, the museum has a curious collection of Berliniana: the first sewing machines, bicycles, telephones, an 1881 telephone book with 41 names, a 19th-century worker’s kitchen, and a model of the infamous tenements that nurtured unrest prior to the 1848 revolution.

  • Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.

  • In the wake of the huge success of Nirvana's Nevermind , which was released in September of 1991 and stayed on the charts for more than a year, major record labels went on a band-signing spree, adding to their rosters any act that seemed to offer even the faintest possibility of being the next Nirvana.


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