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Sentence Examples He noticed that one of his arms was outstretched and covered in a fine dust. Their outstretched branches covered the mossy ground and entwined with the branches of the neighboring trees. Claire spoke, uncapping the beer and slamming it down hard on the counter next to his outstretched hand. With your fist behind your head, and your ideas about your fist in your mind, slowly unclench your fist until your fingers are outstretched. His hand outstretched over her, and her nightgown faded into skimpy sleepwear. I nodded and outstretched my hand, petting the muzzle of the horse, letting it get used to me before I swung myself up on its bare back. The lectern developed in the 13th century into its most distinctive form with the bookrest modelled as an eagle with outstretched wings. No, it's something more truly human-a hand outstretched to touch an unnameable thing. It's low down with arms outstretched and, with the two-tone leather seats, it appeals to the boy racer in everyone. Who hasn't broken an impending fall with an outstretched hand, which can jar the bones of the elbow out of place? When Jenny turned her head back to David, the boy had already outstretched his hand to her. She outstretched her hand in an attempt to halt her already dashing sister, but she was too far. Each of the teenagers outstretched their hands in turn to give a handshake. At the very last moment, the figure outstretched his arm towards the hurled knife and opened his palm wide. Ethan rose to his feet and outstretched his arms, opening and holding the book out. Andrew outstretched his hand to Elizabeth as she descended the last several steps. Upon noticing her state he hurriedly outstretched his hand and mumbled an apology as he helped her off of the ground. She pushed the thoughts from her head and outstretched her hand to summon an automobile. He outstretched his arm as a gesture of invitation for her to accept his offer. I walked over to her, sat down beside her, and I outstretched my arms to give her a hug. Show More Sentences She outstretched her arm in his direction but was dragged the rest of the way by our prince. The leopard braced for the charge, tail twitching, snarling, head low, outstretched forepaws, hindquarters arched. Arm outstretched hopelessly, I stand trying to flag down packed, battered buses as they groan past, belching suffocating fumes. Fractures of the humerus, scapula and clavicle usually result from a direct blow or a fall onto an outstretched hand. Although different methods have been tried in the past, the current rules call for the referee to clap once with arms outstretched in front. The enduring photograph of a prisoner cloaked in black, standing on a box with wires attached to his outstretched arms. She twirled and pirouetted with her arms outstretched to catch the gliding snowflakes. Strands of gold filigree made up the body and outstretched wings while silver wire outlined the head, feathers. Young and old, they stand in corners, hands outstretched, mewing piteously. He waited patiently for Ambrose to finish his drink, then took the canteen from the man's outstretched hand. Placing her half empty punch glass on the console table next to the sofa, Maria rose and slipped her hand through James's outstretched arm. The raptor folds its wings, brings its talons forward, and careens toward the outstretched wings of an unsuspecting bird flying below. The handgrip was in the shape of a flying creature with outstretched wings that he immediately identified as a dragon. When it is an inning-ending forceout, the pitcher can take the throw like an outstretched first baseman to pick up the out. I yelled, crawling forward to the edge of the concrete, and outstretched my arms to grab at him, but he wasn't there. However his outstretched leg just got that fraction of an inch too much under the ball and it skimmed off the juncture of the crossbar and post. Chalcolithic stone figures take a cruciform shape from the outstretched arms or from a second figure at right angles to the first. Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess. Arm outstretched upon the table, Briar watched as his wrist bubbled with gooseflesh and a shiver tiptoed along his spine. The central silver panel depicts an angel or putto with outstretched wings and arms, soaring heavenward. Show More Sentences Most of the NFL men are gathered at the finish line, pyramiding with watches outstretched. The body is elongated to emphasise a twisted head and an outstretched forceful arm. He held the gun with his arms outstretched in front of his chest, causing drivers to take evasive action. Once again, Daikon comprised an attack and made his outstretched hand lunge at Seltu's neck. The space above the outstretched hand began to glow, shimmering in the darkness. Akane was sitting on her knees, her arms outstretched above her head in a wake-up stretch. The midfielder struck a low drive with the outside of his boot, past the goalkeeper's outstretched hand and off the post. Either side of the clock stood a weather-worn statue of an angel, with outstretched wings and lifeless stone eyes looking out over their domain. She shakes an aerosol can and sprays their coats, their heads, their tiny outstretched hands. He nodded and reached his hand out as I sat down between his outstretched legs and leaned back against his chest. After one particularly long submersion, Blair spotted a log stretched out across the river just within reach of his outstretched hands. Suzie, reassuming her usual role, draped the dress over Samantha's outstretched arm and turned back to the others. The cat jumped to a height of two metres or more, hooked the bird with the claws of one outstretched paw and brought it crashing down to earth. Your gaze rushes along the angel's body, down the outstretched arm, and along the stem of the lily he is offering the Virgin. The ground is shooting upwards, out of the grave, being caught by small, outstretched hands. He kept his right hand outstretched and his left hand on his dagger that hung at his waist. In the centre of it all stands a bemused young Fijian, a pair of lifebelts extending from outstretched arms, being a tree. The betrayed son ran toward the red-stained patriarch, arms outstretched, meaning to tear him limb from limb. She caught sight of the old tyre-swing hanging lopsided from an outstretched branch. He made a move, rushing to the left and ducking around Jim's outstretched arm. Show More Sentences It was a hawk or eagle or some other bird of prey, with wings spread and talons outstretched. No, you babble thank you 18 times, swoop under his outstretched arm and bang your forehead on the doorframe. A backhand down-the-line went past her outstretched racquet, and the script changed. Turning swiftly toward its prey, the scorpion darts forward with pincers outstretched, finally grabbing and stinging its victim. The small bald creature leapt gracefully onto the table and outstretched its whip-like tail and its long paper-thin ears. Hailey hurriedly scrambled off the bed, and lunged at James with her arms outstretched. Crouching, with wings outstretched, the huge birds mate, then fly away together to a nearby glade. If a runner goes beyond the extension of a fielder's outstretched arm, he is considered out of the baseline. Hence the well-known depictions of the human frame with the arms and legs outstretched to meet the circumference of a perfect circle. In a fluid, snapping motion, Derryn shifted his feet apart and beckoned to the soldier with an outstretched palm. Timidly, I took the toilet roll from his outstretched arm and thanked him before frowning slightly. As he stepped back, his hand still outstretched, the serpent coiled around him and blended into his body. In children, the most common injury is the torus fracture, which occurs with a fall onto an outstretched hand. Catching a mercenary's outstretched torso with the broad surface of his shield, the Colonel hurled his adversary high overhead. His weapons, having previously been shouldered, were now outstretched to point at Lazarus. He instinctively grabbed the tumbling bag with outstretched arms, and it twisted him sharply to the right before striking his shins and feet. The next batter hits a line-drive single to right past an outstretched second baseman. The pleading look on his face, the rags on his body and his emaciated frame move you so much that you immediately put a coin on the outstretched hands. I slung my satchel over my shoulder and shook her outstretched hand. In these post-tsunami times, with nonstop images of tiny outstretched hands and grief-stricken eyes on the television, most of us feel a yearning to do something to help. Show More Sentences She reached out for him, with both hands outstretched, and he responded by standing, and gently pulling her to her feet, and gathering her into his arms. He escorts me down the stairs, out the door, and we stand for a moment beneath the outstretched arms of the giant elms. I reached over to grab his outstretched hand but as our fingers were about to touch, I was engulfed in darkness. Robert took the other man's outstretched hand and stood on unsteady feet. Everything went blank and he gave in and outstretched his hand to Jesse. My chest pressed into the foot of the crib, arms outstretched through bars, I wailed at an open door to an empty staircase. She tolerated her more sociable brother with a grace that alternated between good and ill, occasionally battering him with an outstretched paw to keep him in his place. Despite the insubstantial nature of the wraith, it appeared opaque enough, and stood in the center of the study's hardwood floor with its wings fully outstretched. You can touch both sides of the wynd with your outstretched arms. Michael Proctor flicked on another hopeful punt forward and Kyle stole in behind May's outstretched boot to bobble the ball past Jensen from 12 yards. In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated. One hand was outstretched to support the instrument by the stem-like projection, the body half tucked under his arm while his fingers danced swiftly over the taut strings. Fielding at short mid wicket he took off, flung himself full length to his left and caught the ball in his outstretched left hand leaving Young gobsmacked. Nearing the parking lot, I passed a beggar woman, her hand outstretched. When the old, toothless man in the parking lot approaches me with outstretched hands and asks for a dime or a cigarette or snack, I look into his eyes. The assistant principal circles her, arms outstretched as if in a linebacker drill, but assiduously avoiding contact. So I stand and watch ball after ball whistle past my outstretched hand and, try as I might, I take it ill to see him running about like a dive bomber, whooping and hollering. To combat any potential misfortune, they stick out the second and fifth digits of one hand and touch their genitals with the outstretched fingertips. His hands outstretched, shoulders in submission, there was no shouting, no expletives, no aggression at all. And for his climax the pop heartthrob was strapped into a heart-shaped metal cage and dangled tantalisingly over a sea of outstretched arms. Show More Sentences Initially these policemen signalled that the line was clear by standing straight with their arms outstretched. The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender. Finally one of the engineers walks towards a red light, his hand outstretched. The body was covered with what appeared to be tiny pills, while one outstretched hand held a glass. They ran towards each other with arms outstretched, and the credits rolled. Emma sat with her rounded knees collected up to her ample chest and held her bottle of Passion Pop in her outstretched hand. When trying to bend the ball around defenders, a defensive wall, or the goalie's outstretched hands, the banana ball is used. Peninsula cooters are frequently seen basking on partially submerged logs, balanced on their belly plates with their legs outstretched. It shows a woman in a jacuzzi at night, arms outstretched on the edge of the pool, her face lit by refected artigcial light. When lying down arkars nearly always keep the head erect, as if on the lookout, and when sleeping they lie with the neck outstretched. Jones got an infield hit when the ball tipped off of the outstretched glove of the diving shortstop. Rather than bother with an umpire when Harmison is charging in, why not just place a scarecrow behind the bowling crease, who automatically has his arms outstretched? Males will demonstrate ownership of a nest by gesturing towards their neighbours with their head with the beak pointing down and the wings slightly outstretched. The need to resist compression of the lower chord is seen in the use of wooden poles while the tension of the upper chord is shown by the outstretched arms. I went for the 20-minute Affusion Shower where warm droplets of seawater fell like a fine rain on my outstretched body as the therapist gave me a toe to head massage. His withheld hand stared down at my weakly outstretched one. The shaftment is the width of the palm and the outstretched thumb. Her outstretched arms probably once held two sistra or musical rattles. Malouda burst through the left side of the defence for the first time and crossed for Kalou, who toe-poked towards goal only for Hennessey's outstretched leg to deny him. Examples from Classical Literature Their great ears were erected and their trunks outstretched as if scenting the air. Beyond it, I saw you standing with outstretched arms, as if you sought to come to me, but could not. It was the voice of the Indian, who, with outstretched arm, was chaunting a solemn invocation to the spirit of the waters. For at first he had lain outstretched on the ground, hidden and indiscernible, like those who lie in wait for swamp-game. Also imagine one atom of oxygen with its two hooks outstretched like two arms, and just link one radicle on to each. The face, the tone, the outstretched arm, all drew her irresistibly to him. He came to me with outstretched hands, and spoke kindly and reasonable words. She had her arms outstretched and such an eager look in her nearsighted eyes that Frieda flew straight to her. The buccaneers sprang at the terrified women and priests, some with weapons out, others with leers and outstretched arms. He held his hand outstretched, as Pierre had when Raoul was about to smash the Limoges vase. Disregarding or unseeing her outstretched hand, he went on and left her there alone. Corona, after holding the golliwog a moment in outstretched hands, strained it to her breast. A dactylic origin of V as an open hand, complete with outstretched thumb, has been favoured. Her arms were outstretched to the dimming form of Harry and the incandescence. She bowed to Alston Choate, though she did not take his outstretched hand. They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor. Help by Thine outstretched arm, and avert our sorrow from us. With a bellow of rage, he came straight at Quirl, arms outstretched. I ducked beneath his outstretched arms, and as he lunged past me planted a terrific right on the side of his jaw. Gavin's hand is outstretched and Andrew's goes forth to meet it. Show More Sentences It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. Simeon was just behind me and he darted forward with outstretched hand. Into her arms, outstretched to receive him, staggers Tristan. She stood looking at that outstretched, stiffened man, who was dying. Her eyes filled, and she stooped as though to kiss the outstretched hand. In his dressing-room Tristan welcomed her with outstretched hands. As the ladies rose, Walter came to me with outstretched hand. This is open house to-night, said King OLeary, with outstretched hand. Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons. The rani slowly raised her hand and held it outstretched before her. There, screaming at them in a cracked falsetto and with skinny arms outstretched, stood a strange apparition of a man. Captain Wragge opened the carriage door, seized his outstretched hand, and pulled him in without ceremony. He looked at her vacantly, and caught sight of her outstretched hands. Taking the card from his outstretched hand, Vernet read the address. The Simpson twins stood in such awe of her that they could not be persuaded to come to the side door even when Miss Jane held gingerbread cookies in her outstretched hands. The long neck was far outstretched, and the four flippers with which it swam were working with powerful strokes, carrying it forward at a rapid pace. I remember that once, on an uninhabited island of the Gallipagos, a bird alighted on my outstretched arm, while its mate chirped from an adjoining tree. The slayers stopped in their stride, the witch-doctors stood with outstretched arms, the world of men was as though it had been frozen into sleep. The brute met the charge with lowered head and outstretched hands, and in another second they were locked in a clinch, tearing at one another like two great gorillas. Find more words! 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