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outspread

[aut-spred, aut-spred, aut-spred] / ˌaʊtˈsprɛd, ˈaʊtˈsprɛd, ˈaʊtˌsprɛd /


ADJECTIVE
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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

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

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

The policeman who had shoved her away now barred her way with his long arms outspread like the wings of some prehistoric bird.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

The wheels were supplemented by aeroplanes, resembling huge outspreading wings, inclined at an angle, so that their forward rush upon the air supported the ship.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

Coltonobory began to mass his army in the form of an immense outspreading hemisphere of the form of an open umbrella.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

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


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