Outstretched in example sentence

So having tuned the harp, Altisidora, running her hand across the strings, began this ballad:O thou that art above in bed,Between the holland sheets,A-lying there from night till morn,With outstretched legs asleep;O thou, most valiant knight of allThe famed Manchegan breed,Of purity and virtue moreThan gold of Araby;Give ear unto a suffering maid,Well-grown but evil-starr'd,For those two suns of thine have litA fire within her heart.

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And during the course of one of her dance rehearsals, she fell on her outstretched arm and sprained her wrist.

And he had his arm outstretched like someone out of The Apprentice.

But to us, we're sort of trying to evoke a self-effacing gesture, as if there's a little person with outstretched arms behind this enormous piece of paper.

"Lord, grant that I desire more than I can accomplish," Michelangelo implored, as if to that Old Testament God on the Sistine Chapel, and he himself was that Adam with his finger outstretched and not quite touching that God's hand.

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