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
In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He pursued his labors among the outspreading neighborhoods in what are now Cumberland and Robeson counties.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
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
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