12 Metaphors for spread

During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking feature in the world's history, but also the event of all others most far-reaching in its effects and its importance.

The galaxy of German monarchies that has over-spread so much of Europe is a growth of hardly more than two centuries.

Yet how wide-spread is this habit of sensuous gratification through the sense of taste!

What is the root-notion common to Secularists and Denominationalists but the notion that spread of knowledge is the one thing needful for bettering behaviour?

The spread of alcoholism in wine-making countries is an illustration of this fact.

The thoughtful and honest observer is always learning more and more of his limitations; he sees that the further knowledge spreads, the more numerous are the problems that make their appearance.

The spread of information and the means of presentation in every class and the increase of luxury and self-indulgence in the prosperous classes are the chief cause of that.

Would not the spread of the gospel be the most effectual mean of their civilization?

The spread of inheritance taxes and the higher and progressive rates applied are an expression in part of the need of additional revenues and in part of the growing popular concern regarding the concentration of wealth.

The girth of the trunk at the smallest place was six feet five inches, and the spread of the branches was not less than fifty feet.

2. That time, in the Divine mind, is to be measured in a more enlarged sense; but the propagation of truth goes on, as obstacle after obstacle is withdrawn, surely, steadily, unalterably, and that its spread over the entire globe is a mere question of time.

The extreme spread of these antlers was 64-1/4 inches.

12 Metaphors for  spread