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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

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

In answer to the behest of the Sun-King, myriads of magpies flocked together, and, outspreading their wings, formed a bridge on which Kingen crossed the River of Heaven.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

As I am a better man, the more soluble is the great outspreading riddle of nature, and the more distinct and full the delicate grace of art.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke

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