What is "wingspreads"

Usage examples of "wingspreads".

But we who have bathed in Time, and been reborn as children of the earth and inheritors of Eternity, drift gently in rivers of sand and streams of darkness, knowing the bombardment from the stars whose emanations have taken millions of years to rain upon the land and seek us out in our plantations of eternally wrapped souls like great seeds beneath the marbled layers and the bas-relief skeletons of reptile birds that fly on sandstone, with wingspreads a million years wide and as deep as a single breath.

Hulions have been seen with wingspreads four times the height of a man, beasts so large that their jaws could snap a man in half.

Pteranodons with thirty-foot wingspreads sounded like giant crows with asthma.

The natural disposition of both tribes was peaceful, so Synapo meekly left his hook pointed aft and took up his station two wingspreads to the right of Sarco as Sarco circled around the center of the dome far below.