Example sentences for: outstretched

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

  • A common sight in China (either one) is two individuals closely observing the upturned, outstretched palm of one while the other “draws” ideographs on that palm with a forefinger.

  • A little girl, naked and in pain and with burned arms outstretched, staggers toward us down the middle of a highway.

  • 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”).

  • and slapped the man's outstretched right hand in the exact same manner that thousands, yea millions, have done since.

  • 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.


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