splay
Example Sentences
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They’re easily startled and may arch their back and splay their hands, as if to say, “The world is stressful for me.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025
"This is the first study to employ coastal geology to reconstruct the rupture history of the splay fault system," said Jessica DePaolis, postdoctoral fellow in Virginia Tech's Department of Geosciences.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2024
Too many such cells caused the sepals to splay and expose the petals prematurely.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023
Branches splay out widely and become roosting places for choirs of myna birds.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2023
Richard Smaltrot is he with the short step, and not Richard Crowfoot, whose feet splay out like fans.”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
