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
Jam stared at the locked layers of Pet’s face and remembered how it looked that night, with its mighty wings outspread, terrible justice come to Lucille.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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
"I'll tell all the truth," he whined, with an outspreading gesture of his hands.
From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
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
At this helpless period of life, the delicately feeble, outspreading toes are wedged into a narrow-toed stocking, often so short as to double in the toes, diminishing the length of the rapidly growing foot!
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
