OUTSTRETCHED


Meaning of OUTSTRETCHED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an outstretched hand (= stretched out towards someone or something )

She took her father's outstretched hand and began to walk from the room.

outstretched

The eagle descended on outstretched wings.

with outstretched arms

Manuel came forward with outstretched arms to welcome Magda.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

arm

In the easier version for younger children, they are freed by touching their outstretched arms .

Failing all this, raising and lowering your outstretched arms at your side is an accepted international distress signal.

With outstretched arm he dropped the ball in the circle.

The eagle swoops towards the goats with outstretched arms .

She brought her outstretched arms down, clasped her hands together.

Then, sliding carefully out from under his outstretched arm , she slipped out of bed.

Who's this larger-than-life character with the outstretched arms , the tenor who sings Nessun Dorma like a dream?

Lie on your right side with head resting on your outstretched arm .

finger

With an outstretched finger , she traced the lines of Pascoe's sleeping face.

Closer, there were her outstretched fingers to study as they burrowed through the sand.

hand

Victorine balanced the cake tin on the palm of her outstretched hand and frowned at it.

She stopped instantly, the pot in her outstretched hands .

She spun round and brought one heel down with tremendous force on to his outstretched hand .

She smiled hesitantly, ignored the outstretched hands , and stepped into Silvio's office.

Isaac's outstretched hands clawed at the muddy earth, then they relaxed.

Her fingers lay slender and perfect, passive across his outstretched hand .

Then he reached out, grasped Mandy's outstretched hand and pulled her back to safe, solid ground.

The guests moved in with outstretched hands .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The birds rose with outstretched wings.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His outstretched foot was being singed.

It's like an Electric Ballroom gig: rowdy, bawdy, hands outstretched , fingers touching, bodies crushing.

It fell forwards and I managed to catch it on my outstretched forearm.

Sit on the floor with legs outstretched and apart.

Sitting with legs outstretched , squeeze the legs together 30 times, holding each squeeze for 1 second.

Sitting with legs outstretched , take hold of your calves with both hands and squeeze them together.

Start as before with arms outstretched , then gently curve the body sideways.

We had to edge sideways along with our arms outstretched against the opposite wall for support.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.