First glance might have given the impression that he was fat, for his body had a certain toad-like spread to it.

There will be, however, a certain spread: sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, once in a while nothing at all.

Is it now unacceptably cliched, in referring to a film's divisive qualities, to refer to a certain dark salty spread?

Either way, admission requires a certain spread - 2 years of math, 2 of a modern language, 1 of a natural science, 1 of American history, 3 years of English - and a level of performance that translates as B+.

Evidently this hadn't struck him, or was less a matter of note to him, but he gazed at me critically for a bit and replied, "Except for the yellow hair and a certain spread of shoulder, yes, I do.