How To Use Spread-eagle In A Sentence
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For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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And finally, we found the chamber in which she was kept, spread-eagled against one wall, dressed in rags and tatters of her once-magnificent gown.
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William was lying spread-eagled on the grass, blind drunk.
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He spread-eagled his limbs while lying on the grass.
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It simply becomes impossible for women to be equally competitive in sports that include female athletes as centerfolds, spread-eagled and airbrushed, in the middle of every player's official rule book.
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a dressy mister, span-new from the city -- layin 'the law down: "All this stars and stripes," says he, "and red and white and blue is rubbish, mere sentimental rot, spread-eagleism!
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
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Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift).
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
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His residences spread-eagle the entire county
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He spread-eagled his limbs while lying on the grass.
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A country spread-eagles Asia and Europe —that is Turkey.
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Good lord who thought a statue of some erstwhile Hooters hostess lying spread-eagle on a bearskin rug with a kid’s head popping out of her cooter was a tribute to anything but velvet Elvis high camp.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: I Can’t Take It Any More
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They spread-eagled him across the floor
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He was lone as a mateless hawk, there on the ledge, against the wall whose stones were pinchingly cold to the small of his back and his spread-eagled arms.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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lay spread-eagle on the floor
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His residences spread-eagle the entire county.
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It simply becomes impossible for women to be equally competitive in sports that include female athletes as centerfolds, spread-eagled and airbrushed, in the middle of every player's official rule book.