spread-eagle
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Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 33 shots, including a spread-eagle glove save with 2:37 left in regulation of Shea Theodore’s long slap shot.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
The sight of Real Madrid’s players, spread-eagle on the field in a state of pure, blissful exhaustion, having somehow turned certain defeat into a triumph actually happens with alarming frequency.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Did you hear about the airline passenger who wound up face down and spread-eagle on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport this month?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2021
So we come upstairs to find you basically spread-eagle, standing on top of the headboard, hanging up this crazy artwork all by yourself.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2021
“Now stop it, Jem Finch,” he said, and resumed his spread-eagle position.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
Demus demands greatness, piercing ears with her whistle, running workouts so vigorous that athletes wind up face down and spread-eagled on the track in exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2023
Keisala got her right pad out to make a spread-eagled stop on Amanda Kessel driving in on a breakaway, while Kelly Pannek was stopped trying to jam in a loose puck from atop the crease.
From Fox News ● Feb. 14, 2022
Video posted on social media showed a man spread-eagled face down on the runway asphalt as a pair of emergency personnel knelt beside him.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
Spotted skunks perform a spread-eagled handstand before they spray you.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
The scene whirled, the darkness became complete; Harry felt himself falling and, with a crash, he landed spread-eagled on his four-poster in the Gryffindor dormitory, Riddle’s diary lying open on his stomach.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Kenya's David Rudisha provided the most spectacular individual performance on the track, spread-eagling the field to break his own world 800 meters record without the benefit of pacemakers.
From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2012
But on the long run-in from the last fence and with the race at his mercy, the horse unaccountably lost his footing, spread-eagling himself on the turf.
From Reuters ● Feb. 14, 2010
This was what Navy Secretary Frank Knox meant last week as he did some unqualified spread-eagling: At the end of last year, the U.S. had a Navy second to none.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I set it by the ship’s time before our capsize, and it goes pretty correctly, for I didn’t forget to wind it up all the time we were spread-eagling on the bulwarks.”
From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by Schonberg, J.
It brought Irish spread-eagling over his head, and it landed him fairly in the middle of Patsy's great pan of soft bread "sponge"—and landed him upon his head into the bargain.
From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.
