Example sentences for: outstretched

How can you use “outstretched” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most celebrated is the tortured Laocoön group (from Rhodes, first century b.c. –first century a.d. ), only recently returned more closely to its pristine state by the removal of one statue’s outstretched arm added by over-zealous 16th-century “restorers”).

  • It depicts a wind- and sea-swept Sir George in a dramatic — perhaps anguished — pose with arms outstretched.

  • The road ends at a fine miradouro, where a statue of Christ stands with arms outstretched (a miniature version of the statues at Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon).

  • Toward the center of Michelangelo’s ceiling, you’ll make out the celebrated outstretched finger of man’s creation, filled out by the drunkenness of Noah, the turmoil of the Flood.

  • Underneath the outstretched arms he had written a caption, "The debt is this big, and only God can repay it."


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