Examples of spate in a Sentence
A spate of books on the subject have come out recently.
There was a spate of corporate mergers in the 1980s.
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How to account for the spate of TV series about rich people being terrible?
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
According to police, the department’s Detective Division identified Damato as a suspect while investigating a spate of recent vehicle thefts and street takeovers.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
In between those two explosions are several plane crashes, a spate of trigger-happy communist revolutionaries, and a homicidal argument over the profits from a poison gas that has killed more than 10,000 soldiers.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
That was when a spate of injuries affected every senior centre-back in the first-team squad, leading to Asencio unexpectedly breaking into the starting XI.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
According to police, the department’s Detective Division identified Damato as a suspect while investigating a spate of recent vehicle thefts and street takeovers.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
In between those two explosions are several plane crashes, a spate of trigger-happy communist revolutionaries, and a homicidal argument over the profits from a poison gas that has killed more than 10,000 soldiers.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
That was when a spate of injuries affected every senior centre-back in the first-team squad, leading to Asencio unexpectedly breaking into the starting XI.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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“Spate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spate. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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: a sudden flood or rush
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