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Example sentences for: splayed

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At higher magnification they could often be seen to have a splayed, spreading cap at the end and a small, central nucleus.
With their long ruffled trumpets and bright petals splayed like the rays of the sun, these unabashed bloomers give of themselves freely and ask little in return.
14 Old York, Old York --A brooding English writer (Laurence Olivier) is fascinated, against his better judgment, by a wisecracking American girl (Ginger Rogers) who scoots around his Yorkshire hotel lobby backward on heels humming to herself with her arms splayed.
We are now perversely disposed to do the same thing with clumpy boots that box feet in or puffy shoes that muffle them up with blobs or colorful wadding, to which delicious concoctions have been added--the weighty clogs with dainty straps, the lofty heels with splayed bottoms.
And she, her back to him, seems only what she shows as she bends over, reaching between her splayed legsto pick it up, her face a moment upside down beneath her crotch, her pink tongue flickering levelwith the face she watches watching her, the face void