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outspread

[aut-spred, aut-spred, aut-spred] / ˌaʊtˈsprɛd, ˈaʊtˈsprɛd, ˈaʊtˌsprɛd /


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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

Each crater held a single, stolid icefish, dark pectoral fins outspread like bat wings over a clutch of eggs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 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

The captain spread his hand open, the thumb up and fingers outspread as when you make shadow pictures.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

The wheels were supplemented by aeroplanes, resembling huge outspreading wings, inclined at an angle, so that their forward rush upon the air supported the ship.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

In answer to the behest of the Sun-King, myriads of magpies flocked together, and, outspreading their wings, formed a bridge on which Kingen crossed the River of Heaven.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

"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


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