Emblem of the United States

Usage examples of spreadeagle.

He was securely locked in steel manacles, one on each wrist and around each ankle, and was suspended several inches above a white, tiled floor, his limbs spreadeagled, on a smooth blue wall.

As much from surprise as from the force of the blow he staggered back against the mantelpiece and only stopped himself from falling backwards into the fireplace by spreadeagling his arms.

It was spreadeagled in a radial burst of limbs and bodyparts, dripping from its emptied-out thorax.

In the screen appeared the image of a young man, naked on a bed, arms spreadeagled to meet the tubes driven into his veins, chest and abdominal cavities opened for the entry of machines that kept most cells alive.

A few doors down, an old bakery run by a mixture of Chinese and Russian immigrants proudly displayed a poppyseed almond cake in the shape of a man spreadeagled (or else doing jumping jacks), which Harry described as 'Brother Alex leaping to our rescue'.

It was spreadeagled, as though it had planned to make snow angels and had then decided against it.