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
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
She lands on her feet, arms outspread, and reports, “The Marshes have the holo up too loud. It sounds like I have cops in my head.”
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
At this helpless period of life, the delicately feeble, outspreading toes are wedged into a narrow-toed stocking, often so short as to double in the toes, diminishing the length of the rapidly growing foot!
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry
I found it quite easy to balance myself on the two-legged monsters in consequence of the large base given each leg by the outspreading toes.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard