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splay

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as inbroad

as inclumsy
as inflat
as ingawky
as inlumbering
as insquat
as inwide
as inflare
as inslant
as inslope

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How to use splay in a sentence

Draw each hand into a fist or, for fingertips, lift until you’re holding your bodyweight on your fingertips, with your fingers splayed open for stability.

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On the decks, people were splayed out on their towels, lazily soaking up every ounce of sunshine, as if they had nowhere else to be.

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A few possessions earlier, James had taken a foul to the face from Warriors forward Draymond Green that left him splayed out on the court and needing eye drops once he returned to the bench.

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Girls, she explained, held their hands out at a distance, fingers splayed like a fan, to look at their nails.

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Her legs gradually drew up, splaying her knees outward — and drawing her feet inward — as if in some cruel, lotus-like pose.

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They are cut on the splay so that the front end is half the width of a header and one side half the length of the brick.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUS

No variation, no change; the art of it is to keep almost to the same groove, and not to make the figure broad and splay.

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The centre porch has twisted columns, which are carried round the splay of the arch.

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Such a collection of splay feet, puffed joints, and misshapen limbs was assuredly never before made within so small a compass.

BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 68, NO. 417, JULY, 1850VARIOUS

They are boldly splayed off, and in the middle of the splay is set a shaft, which finishes with a sculptured capital.

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