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Example sentences for "outflung"

Lexicographically close words:
outflanked; outflanking; outflow; outflowing; outflows; outfly; outgate; outgeneraled; outgeneralled; outgo
  1. She spake, and both her snowy arms outflung Around him doubting, and embraced the Sire, And, softly fondling, kissed him as she clung.

  2. The bridle and the foaming bit he placed, To curb their fury, and outflung the rein.

  3. Illustration: His outflung hand caught a projecting scrap of rock.

  4. His outflung hand caught a projecting scrap of rock in a drowning grip and clung there, despite the efforts of the wave to tear him loose.

  5. They wrangled for half an hour, and the schooner drifted on until she was within a mile or so of the outflung false Point.

  6. Then her head fell forward on her outflung arms, and she lay with thin shoulders heaving to her fighting breath, and her face hidden in her tangled mane.

  7. The galley flew over the waters; it glided round the outflung arm of the mole, and reached the quay.

  8. Blanche paused by a tall hedge and stood with her back against it, her arms outflung on either side and her head up bravely.

  9. It caught him just under an outflung knee as he galloped and flipped him neatly, heels to the stars.

  10. She yielded to the compulsion in his voice and to her own weakness, and lay very still and inert, her cheek upon her outflung arm, her eyes watching the red dance of flames through the black strands of her hair.

  11. He clutched her outflung hands and dragged her toward the door.

  12. Farley fell upon his back, with his arms outflung crosswise and his glazing eyes upturned.

  13. Dawson's outflung arm was like an iron rod with a ball of steel on the end of it.

  14. With one outflung hand he forced Hixon back in the seat.

  15. Over and over, whirling with outflung arms and legs, dropped the stowaway.

  16. The misery, the hopelessness was back in Burton's face again--and suddenly he bent over the table and buried his head in his outflung arms.

  17. But Hade was nowhere within reach of Brice's outflung arms.

  18. For from every outflung limb and from every tiniest twig hung plumes and festoons and stalactites of gray moss.

  19. The tobacco jar must have gone too, had not one of Gavin's outflung hands caught it in mid-air, as a quarterback might catch a football.

  20. One afternoon, in a deep-grassed meadow they came upon an encamped train outflung on the stream bank in wearied disarray.

  21. The little girl lay beside him, her cheek resting on an outflung arm, her eyes fixed wistfully on the personally conducted party.

  22. There was an irregular area of continental size; only when they had crossed it did Harkness point toward an outflung projection of land.

  23. But she did not speak--they were standing by the rustic bench and she sank down upon it, and, with her head hidden in one arm outflung across the back of the seat, was sobbing softly.

  24. I am stunned and stupified," Madison was saying, and his hand trembled visibly in its outflung gesture.

  25. He made no sound, no movement--and his head lay in his outflung arms.

  26. His hands were outflung across the coverlet, his head was buried in his arms--and there was no movement, save only a convulsive tremor that shook the thin shoulders.

  27. Crang's outflung revolver was on a level with his eyes.

  28. Slavin's restless eyes roving over the expanse of unbroken snow on his left hand, suddenly dilated, and he uttered an eager exclamation, pointing downwards with outflung arm.

  29. Quickly as he sprang aside he barely missed the flashing knife and the bulk of the man behind it, whose hand, outflung to save his balance, accidentally knocked the Colt from Bill's grasp and sent it spinning twenty feet away.

  30. One hand, outflung in dejected abandon, hung over the side and Sammy's eyes, glancing at it, narrowed as he looked.

  31. Straight as an arrow across the veldt she went to the skeleton tree with its stripped trunk and stark, outflung arms that seemed the very incarnation of the barrenness around.

  32. He caught the outflung hands, gripping them hard, assuring himself that this thing was no illusion.

  33. BIRD'S NEST, the nest of a species of swift, formed from a marine plant that has been first digested by a bird, and esteemed a great luxury by the Chinese.

  34. For a long time John Denby sat motionless, his arms outflung across the letters that might have meant so much, but that did mean so little, to him--now.

  35. He hadn't reasoned in that brief instant; he had only caught and grasped the outflung hand of one whom, for two years, he had trusted and believed was a friend.

  36. Bookie Skarvan licked at his dry lips, and cowered back from the revolver that was suddenly outflung in Dave Henderson's hand.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outflung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.