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
In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.
From New York Times ● May 12, 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
Finally she settled herself with the outspread robe and placed the frame around the newest section waiting to be repaired.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He fell back, his fat arms eloquently outspreading.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
He pursued his labors among the outspreading neighborhoods in what are now Cumberland and Robeson counties.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
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
