Depression is a period marked by slackening of business activity, widespread unemployment, falling prices, and wages, etc.

He is the first national politician to be named in a widening corruption scandal.

The forest fire began to spread in all directions.

A small border dispute ballooned into a major international incident.

Another tendency of many Japanese that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".

Maori culture is now spreading more and more among us and their language has become an official language.

The news spread little by little.