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
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
When the dough has doubled in size, about an hour or so, push it down with outspread fingers, making dimples in the dough.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
She was flying, skimming the ground with no track under her, not even a hoverboard, keeping herself aloft by sheer willpower and the wind in her outspread jacket.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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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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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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The heathfowl wing their terrified flight—through, above, and beneath the rolling and outspreading smoke.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
It produced in Bates unthinking irritation that Nature should quietly go on outspreading her evening magnificence in face of his discomfort.
From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily
He fell back, his fat arms eloquently outspreading.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry