splay
Example Sentences
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She made a grasp for it but missed, and the boy stumbled and fell, splayed over the riverbank.
From Literature
Glancing up, he saw with a start that his fingers were a hair’s breadth away from a large splayed hand that had been hammer-etched deep into the stone.
From Literature
I was suddenly conscious that my own locks were splayed messily down my back, but I resisted the itch to gather them and rake them smooth.
From Literature
I wipe away the sticky circled residue left by half-drunk glasses, and I close the books splayed open with broken spines and tuck them back on the shelf.
From Literature
They clipped 13 seconds of him tearing into a Whopper, sauce and a grin splayed across his face, and posted it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
