outspread
Example Sentences
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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
She then raised her outspread arms, thunder roared, lightning bolts flashed and — in some versions of the commercial — wild animals stampeded.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2020
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
The policeman who had shoved her away now barred her way with his long arms outspread like the wings of some prehistoric bird.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
