Sentence examples for hand spread from inspiring English sources

His paws looked as big as a hand spread wide.

The marks were huge -- a hand spread seven inches across -- firmly set into the ground.

You can hold it easily with the fingers of one hand spread in a gentle claw along the outer edge.

In the following decades the use of machines to make things, instead of crafting them by hand, spread around the world.

The girl in green was sitting in the universal attitude of anguish, her head bent, the fingers of one hand spread along the hairline on her brow, the wrist brought down on the bridge of her nose.

When he emerges, one hand spread out on his chest as if he were pledging an oath, he is always contrite: "You were talking too fast; I can't keep up, but I've thought it through and I want you to be happy".

The boy, on the other hand, spreads metaphorical sunshine, prompting enthusiastic waves and indulgent smiles.

Both, he said, provide spiritual sustenance for the mission at hand: Spreading the word that Islam and the Koran are instruments of "violence, death and terrorism".

Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, spreads out uniformly across the globe – it doesn't accumulate in one hemisphere or another.

On one hand, spreading across space (transmit antennas) and frequency (subcarriers) potentially provides robustness against frequency-selective fading and channel ill-conditioning while providing transmit diversity gains.

For gardens and small yards, however, hand spreading the lime is usually best.