outspread

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

He looks up to see, there in the sky and blocking out the sun completely, the long-lost Lazarus woodpecker, with its wings outspread and its beak pointing upward, nearly piercing the blue of the sky.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley