spread-eagle
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Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 33 shots, including a spread-eagle glove save with 2:37 left in regulation of Shea Theodore’s long slap shot.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
The sight of Real Madrid’s players, spread-eagle on the field in a state of pure, blissful exhaustion, having somehow turned certain defeat into a triumph actually happens with alarming frequency.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Did you hear about the airline passenger who wound up face down and spread-eagle on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport this month?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2021
So we come upstairs to find you basically spread-eagle, standing on top of the headboard, hanging up this crazy artwork all by yourself.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2021
He was awake, lying spread-eagle in his big platform bed, looking up at the trompe l’oeil painting of a domed and gilded ceiling that was open at the center to a pink sky.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Demus demands greatness, piercing ears with her whistle, running workouts so vigorous that athletes wind up face down and spread-eagled on the track in exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2023
After an initial save on Conor Sheary, he made two more off Ovechkin and Dylan Strome while spread-eagled on the ice.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Keisala got her right pad out to make a spread-eagled stop on Amanda Kessel driving in on a breakaway, while Kelly Pannek was stopped trying to jam in a loose puck from atop the crease.
From Fox News ● Feb. 14, 2022
Spotted skunks perform a spread-eagled handstand before they spray you.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
I lay on my back on the raft, spread-eagled so I looked like a brown X, my hands and feet stuck in mounds of sap.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Kenya's David Rudisha provided the most spectacular individual performance on the track, spread-eagling the field to break his own world 800 meters record without the benefit of pacemakers.
From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2012
But on the long run-in from the last fence and with the race at his mercy, the horse unaccountably lost his footing, spread-eagling himself on the turf.
From Reuters ● Feb. 14, 2010
This was what Navy Secretary Frank Knox meant last week as he did some unqualified spread-eagling: At the end of last year, the U.S. had a Navy second to none.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I set it by the ship’s time before our capsize, and it goes pretty correctly, for I didn’t forget to wind it up all the time we were spread-eagling on the bulwarks.”
From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by J. Schonberg
In an instant he had snatched the roll away and sent the sheets spread-eagling up the street, looking like so many big white butterflies as they flapped and whirled deliriously hither and thither.
From The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler
