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
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
He points to the bible outspread on my lap.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
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
Whatever the object of his attention, it seemed to lie beneath the outspreading branches of a large spruce.
From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
"I'll tell all the truth," he whined, with an outspreading gesture of his hands.
From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
