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Outstretched in sentence

58 examples of Outstretched in a sentence

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.
What we can see with great sharpness and clarity and accuracy is the equivalent of the surface area of our thumb on our outstretched arm.
I was ushered into a small room, so small my outstretched arms could touch each wall.
With just one outstretched hand that says, "Are you OK?
In the words of a recent Brookings Institution book, Obama had an “activist vision of his role in history,” intending to “refurbish America’s image abroad, especially in the Muslim world; end its involvement in two wars; offer an outstretched hand to Iran; reset relations with Russia as a step toward ridding the world of nuclear weapons; develop significant cooperation with China on both regional and global issues; and make peace in the Middle East.”
Latin America’s Dysfunctional DemocracyIn Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands.
The time has come to discard the clichéd image of refugees as passive recipients of aid, sitting idly with outstretched hands.
They lined Victors Avenue, Minsk’s main thoroughfare, with their arms outstretched, flashing the victory/peace sign.
Kneeling and with outstretched arms defending some mushrooms from Grisha, she was calling little Masha.
Vasenka, lying prone with one stockinged leg outstretched, was sleeping so soundly that it was impossible to get any answer out of him.
Her rigid tail was outstretched, only its very tip twitching.
He quickly grasped Levin's outstretched hand and pressed it.
With her arms helplessly outstretched upon the quilt, unusually beautiful and calm she lay, gazing silently at him, trying unsuccessfully to smile.
Landau hurriedly looked round, approached smilingly, laid upon Oblonsky's outstretched hand his own moist and motionless one, went back, and continued looking at the portraits.
" And the violence did not cease, the outstretched fists, the abominable words, the shovelfuls of accusations and threats which buffeted their faces.
Consequently, I decided to divide our energies so we wouldn't both be worn out at the same time, and this was the arrangement: while one of us lay on his back, staying motionless with arms crossed and legs outstretched, the other would swim and propel his partner forward.
I lay outstretched, strength gone, nearly unconscious.
Hands outstretched toward the sea, he contemplated the proud wreck with blazing eyes.
He was so overladen with them that one could only see the tips of his wooden shoes and the ends of his two outstretched arms.
Then smiling a strange smile, his pupil fixed, his teeth set, he advanced with outstretched arms.
Charles was on the other side, on his knees, his arms outstretched towards Emma.
The supervisor raised his eyes, bit his lip and looked at K.'s outstretched hand; K still believed the supervisor would do as he suggested.
K. felt almost ashamed to be seen by him, earlier he had stood so upright in front of him and now he had to be supported by two others, his hat was held up by the information-giver balanced on outstretched fingers, his hair was dishevelled and hung down onto the sweat on his forehead.
K.'s uncle had turned his back to him and was looking out the window, bunching up the curtains with his outstretched hands.
The only one to succeed was the hunchback when she slipped through under his outstretched arm, but the painter chased after her, grabbed her by the skirt, span her once round and set her down again by the door with the other girls who, unlike the first, had not dared to cross the doorstep while the painter had left his post.
His mother was not far away in front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!"
But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw screamed: "Oh God, oh God!"Arms outstretched, she fell onto the couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile.
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