Illustration: In a neighborhood community garden, a gardener sweeps one hand outward, scattering a broad fan of seeds across a freshly prepared bed. Many seeds remain airborne while others are already spread irregularly over the soil. The other hand holds a shallow seed bowl close to the waist.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ばらまく

baramaku

to scatter, to spread

Example sentences

  1. ベンは悪意あくいから私わたしの噂うわさをばらまいた。

    Ben spread a rumor about me out of malice.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれは手紙てがみを粉々こなごなに引ひき裂さいて窓まどからばら撒まいた。

    He tore up his letter into small bits and threw them out the window.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. そして、みずから釜戸かまどの火ひを庭先にわさきにばらまき、その中なかに大量たいりょうの鰯いわしを投なげ込こんだ。

    She then picked up the burning firewood from the stove, scattered it on the garden and threw numerous sardines into it.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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