How to Use outstretch in a Sentence

outstretch

verb

• His video shows the shark come out from under a peer and swim straight at his wife, who has one arm outstretched in front of her.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 13 Dec. 2017
• Rapinoe ran to the corner of the field and outstretched her arms, soaking in the applause.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
• While kicking around a soccer ball, the little princess took a few breaks to balance on one leg with her arms outstretched above her head.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• There Lenin seems less like a fiery leader than a grumpy retiree, his arm outstretched as if trying to call back a bus that sped past him.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2017
• Squat Pulse Stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulders-width apart, toes pointing forward with your arms outstretched in front of you.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 21 Jan. 2017
• Brooks frequently outstretched his arms, removed his cowboy hat and shook his head in disbelief at the crowd's energy.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
• But one night, a man stood near the stage with both middle fingers outstretched and stared at Aiello during Cianci’s final scene.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• Officers can be seen moving toward the black teens by pushing past white youth, some who have their arms outstretched in an apparent effort to block the officers’ path.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
• What would happen if a crowd of people stormed the gates of Area 51 looking for aliens, and all of them ran really fast with their arms outstretched behind them?
  — Jacey Fortin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
• Sassy was content to sit at David's side, but also loves to play and enjoyed rolling on her back, outstretching her legs and waving her paws as if wanting to give David a hug.
  — Laura Bruck, cleveland.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Buy Photo Michele Refford walked up and down the three blocks of demonstrators Tuesday morning, her cell phone outstretched.
  — Erin McCarthy, Philly.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Then the justice would hold his hand up with all five fingers outstretched, indicating that five votes on the Supreme Court were what really changed the Constitution.
  — James W. Lucas, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
• And Rosier connected on a 23-yard deep pass to Darrell Langham, who outstretched his arms and put the ball in the corner of the end zone before his knee touched the ground at the 1-yard line.
  — Christy Cabrera Chirinos, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• In the final straightaway, Diggins chased down Stina Nilsson of Sweden and outstretched her at the finish to win by 19-hundredths of a second.
  — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• In one iconic photo that exemplifies their friendship, Obama sits on a bench while Merkel stands in front of him with her arms outstretched in deep conversation -- with the German Alps in the background.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 May 2017
• Compounding the frustration was Ibrahimovic putting United in front eight minutes later by curling a free kick around the defensive wall past outstretching goalkeeper Fraser Forster.
  — Rob Harris, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
• Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology created a minuscule folding quadcopter that can outstretch its arms and get airborne within one second.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2015
• And for a cool climax to her hour and 45-minute concert, about 50 drones with LED lights hovering around her like fireflies — and, at one point, taking formation to resemble massive wings outstretched from each of Dion’s shoulders.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2019