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
She then raised her outspread arms, thunder roared, lightning bolts flashed and — in some versions of the commercial — wild animals stampeded.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
Thus a skydiver falls more slowly with outspread limbs than when they are in a pike position—head first with hands at their side and legs together.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
They chased her to the end of the pier, and without breaking her stride the woman bounded up a set of crates and took a flying leap over the water, arms outspread like wings.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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 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
Whatever the object of his attention, it seemed to lie beneath the outspreading branches of a large spruce.
From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
The gate closes with a cord and pulley after her, and somehow the hem of the fresh, outspreading crinoline gets caught in it, as it shuts.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
The brush fire sent a line of smoke straight up, a long milky thread, that slowly disentangled itself and mounted to a final outspreading.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
