What is "outstretch"

Usage examples of "outstretch".

With a scream of joy Barnacle darted under his outstretched arm, rushed across the room and hurled himself at the drawn curtains.

Cabe Bedlam, arms outstretched, a small object in his left hand, looking all the world like his grandfather.

Jory and Melodic had forgotten they might be observed and became so involved in what they were doing that they danced on and on, wildly passionate, entranced with each other, until Melodic ran to leap into his outstretched arms.

Four seconds of soaring terror, his arms outstretched like Superman, or Christ, and then perhaps a microsecond of unimaginable pain.

Low retaining walls curved back into the sloping hillside like arms outstretched by the arched opening in their center: the entrance to what the Oltenians called a Molt nursery cave.

To his right is a vertiginous panorama, the huge rift valley with its ancient city of the dead outstretched before him.

She stopped as though petrified, holding a tray in her outstretched hands and listened to everything her brother said about the punishment inflicted upon him.

As Poly spoke the child raised one golden-brown hand, looking wonderingly at the five outstretched fingers.

The problemist nodded a grim acquiescence, and took the outstretched hand of Norris.

I seized the outstretched hand and drew him forward, then reclosed the door and stood before him a moment in doubt.

Before Abbess Hilda had time to respond, questioning why a young Irish religieuse should be worthy to be asked to make her presence known to them, the Bishop Colman had risen from his chair and had taken a stride towards the girl with an outstretched hand of welcome.

They prostrated themselves upon the steps of the dais, and then kneeled before Anne in a reverential attitude, with hands outstretched, the palms open.

And as Routh recreated in himself the sense of a whole society with cruel hand outstretched and eager to pull the plug, terrifying hints of hidden and dangerous volitions rose up through his weak anger.

Before they straightened into the main street, El Sangre had shoved his nose past the outstretched head of the gray.

Cullen spent the morning running up and down the rows of corn, his arms outstretched, scaring up droves of crows.