outspread
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Occasionally, a couple will even have a Jack and Rose moment, one person with arms outspread, the other clutching them around the waist.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
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
The wings hadn’t always been outspread as they were now, Eril-Fane told Lazlo.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I am a better man, the more soluble is the great outspreading riddle of nature, and the more distinct and full the delicate grace of art.
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke
The gate closes with a cord and pulley after her, and somehow the hem of the fresh, outspreading crinoline gets caught in it, as it shuts.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Broad her snow-white sails outspreading ’Gainst the quiet sky of evening, Flies a ship without a sailor, Flies—and whither, who can tell?
From Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld
