Example sentences for: spree

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

  • 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.

  • Notes left by Barton in the apartment where his second wife and two children were found dead shed light on the motives behind his killing spree: estrangement from his wife, recent massive day trading losses, and a strange allusion to a "fear" passed from his father, to him, and ultimately to his son.

  • 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.

  • A fifteen-year-old's shooting spree at his Oregon high school leads USA Today . A record deal--the planned purchase of PolyGram by Seagram Co.--leads at the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times national edition lead is the new president of Indonesia's first day in office.

  • Across rue Ste-Catherine, you pass through the imposing glass portals of the attractive multilevel shopping center of Complexe Desjardins, opened in 1976 during the grand building spree of the Montréal Olympic Games.


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