Example sentences for: spree

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The main news in the Cunanan hunt, according to USAT , is that the FBI is now warning people who knew the fugitive that his murder spree may be a matter of seeking revenge against those he thinks crossed him.

  • The shooting spree has made the World Church of the Creator, the hate group to which Smith was linked, the new poster child of American racism.

  • What follows the incredible spree of productivity that lasted from 1947-50 is a kind of brownout.


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