spread-eagle
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Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 33 shots, including a spread-eagle glove save with 2:37 left in regulation of Shea Theodore’s long slap shot.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
The sight of Real Madrid’s players, spread-eagle on the field in a state of pure, blissful exhaustion, having somehow turned certain defeat into a triumph actually happens with alarming frequency.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Did you hear about the airline passenger who wound up face down and spread-eagle on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport this month?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2021
So we come upstairs to find you basically spread-eagle, standing on top of the headboard, hanging up this crazy artwork all by yourself.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2021
He was awake, lying spread-eagle in his big platform bed, looking up at the trompe l’oeil painting of a domed and gilded ceiling that was open at the center to a pink sky.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Demus demands greatness, piercing ears with her whistle, running workouts so vigorous that athletes wind up face down and spread-eagled on the track in exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2023
Keisala got her right pad out to make a spread-eagled stop on Amanda Kessel driving in on a breakaway, while Kelly Pannek was stopped trying to jam in a loose puck from atop the crease.
From Fox News ● Feb. 14, 2022
Video posted on social media showed a man spread-eagled face down on the runway asphalt as a pair of emergency personnel knelt beside him.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
Spotted skunks perform a spread-eagled handstand before they spray you.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
It flew in low over the trees where Nhamo lay spread-eagled in terror.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Kenya's David Rudisha provided the most spectacular individual performance on the track, spread-eagling the field to break his own world 800 meters record without the benefit of pacemakers.
From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2012
But on the long run-in from the last fence and with the race at his mercy, the horse unaccountably lost his footing, spread-eagling himself on the turf.
From Reuters ● Feb. 14, 2010
This was what Navy Secretary Frank Knox meant last week as he did some unqualified spread-eagling: At the end of last year, the U.S. had a Navy second to none.
From Time Magazine Archive
She glanced from the helmet which the airman held toward her to the monoplane spread-eagling on the ground.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
It was a bad step for Blenkiron, and we only got him past it by Peter and I spread-eagling ourselves against the wall and passing him in front of us with his face towards us.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan