outspread
Example Sentences
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Occasionally, a couple will even have a Jack and Rose moment, one person with arms outspread, the other clutching them around the waist.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024
At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.
From Reuters • May 5, 2023
We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2022
Thus a skydiver falls more slowly with outspread limbs than when they are in a pike position—head first with hands at their side and legs together.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
There, people “cast their nets outspread into the river, at night; and when morning comes, they find in their nets such goods as .., ginger, rhubarb, wood of aloes, and cinnamon.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
