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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

Cluny’s long tail swished restlessly, the single eye stared at a carved eagle holding the rotting lectern on its outspread wings.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.

From Time Magazine Archive

On one side rugged, sternly rising, crenelated, grey, snow-strewn; on the other, dreamy, far outspreading, gently vanishing, southward luring, softly glowing, wrapt in tints of loveliest azure, gradually blending with the silver-fretted sky.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Mrs. Russell Barrington

God Christ—along the weary lands, What lone invisible Calvaries are set, What drooping brows with dews of anguish wet, What faint outspreading of unwilling hands, Bound to a viewless cross with viewless bands.

From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Then came the bare fell, and the raw north wind, and the low gray house, stretching itself under the leafless, outspreading limbs of the sycamores.

From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr