outspread
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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
When the dough has doubled in size, about an hour or so, push it down with outspread fingers, making dimples in the dough.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
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
The gate closes with a cord and pulley after her, and somehow the hem of the fresh, outspreading crinoline gets caught in it, as it shuts.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
"We'll have something to eat now," Martin remarked, as he seated himself upon the ground beneath the shade of the outspreading branches.
From If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
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
