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
A gray bird circled, glided downward on outspread wings, then flew rapidly across the fields and disappeared from sight.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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
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
It was the trunks and the outspreading branches of the same pine trees which held Seagreave.
From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
"I'll tell all the truth," he whined, with an outspreading gesture of his hands.
From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
