outspread
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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
When the dough has doubled in size, about an hour or so, push it down with outspread fingers, making dimples in the dough.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
It finished the beautiful pattern and settled itself at the center with blue-furred legs outspread.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
Then came the bare fell, and the raw north wind, and the low gray house, stretching itself under the leafless, outspreading limbs of the sycamores.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It was very still in the orchard; cool, too, for the hot June sun only penetrated in spots the outspreading branches of the old trees.
From Happy House by Jane D. Abbott
What scanty light penetrated to the boys filtered through the outspreading branches of the fallen pine.
From The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger by William Murray Graydon
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