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
She then raised her outspread arms, thunder roared, lightning bolts flashed and — in some versions of the commercial — wild animals stampeded.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
Backward she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
"I'll tell all the truth," he whined, with an outspreading gesture of his hands.
From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
I found it quite easy to balance myself on the two-legged monsters in consequence of the large base given each leg by the outspreading toes.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
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
