outspread

How To Use outspread In A Sentence

• They lapped against the outspread hands of a solitary girl, whose dusky hair rose and fell with the water.
• outspread wings
• In the morning and evening, the cock struts gallantly around his beat, his handsome forked tail outspread.
• The central 12-foot column is surmounted by a bronze angel with outspread wings.
• Virgil too calls the outspread, even plain, “justissima tellus.” The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
• The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom some immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul.
• The act of hiding the food with outspread wings and tail while it eats is called “mantling.” Birdology
• For a while I found a little shade below one of the outspread branches of a tall araucaria that grew in the patio, but it was not easy to resist the lure of the street, and I was soon back again, sitting on the roof balustrade. Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
• He saw the man's round moonface clearly and the shocked panic in his eyes as Thirle began to run clumsily across the court, arms outspread like a bird's wings for balance. The Silent Tower
• All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws.