Example sentences for: outstretched

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • A boy from the university, track star goofing with his girl at river's edge, slips he falls in and she watches him carried away in silence, arms outstretched like wings, not a word or sound or sign of struggle:

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


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