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
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
Thus a skydiver falls more slowly with outspread limbs than when they are in a pike position—head first with hands at their side and legs together.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
A gray bird circled, glided downward on outspread wings, then flew rapidly across the fields and disappeared from sight.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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
Nearby stood a large tree, with great outspreading branches, and under this they stopped, John's heart was beating fast, while the girl's face almost equalled the rose in colour.
From Jess of the Rebel Trail by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
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
In answer to the behest of the Sun-King, myriads of magpies flocked together, and, outspreading their wings, formed a bridge on which Kingen crossed the River of Heaven.
From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various
