Sentence examples for limb spread from inspiring English sources

This done, he laid him tenderly down, placed his knapsack under his head, straightened out his broken limb, spread his overcoat over him, replaced his empty canteen with a full one, and turned to another sufferer.

They exhibit the greatest range of size (less than one millimetre, or 0.04 inch, to a limb spread of more than three metres, or 10 feet) and the greatest diversity of body form.

"Dead Person's Bed" meant she was tied, four limbs spread, to a bed, and left there, often gagged.

A fork-tailed red kite rides the thermals above, its feathered limbs spread wide as it prowls for rodent morsels below.

The experiment failed, but descriptions of the body's responses — the opening of an eye, the turning of the head, the convulsive tremors of the limbs — spread.

There are no other human beings around — none to warn about the dangers of overexposure, none to take my money — so into the soothing water I freely sink, my limbs spread open to a cloudless sky.

Thus ancient stone Bodhisattvas with missing limbs spread around the world's museums conjure the bloody reality of landmine victims; the tortured bodies of disappeared political activists lie hidden in sacred burial grounds.

Though the forests of this region are mostly gone today, they're magnificently evoked here: "Imagine gliding on chaste sand beneath a virtually unbroken canopy of shade, a long glissade beneath a parasol of oak trees with limbs spread so long and low that on occasion squirrels would parallel our path on mossy avenues overhead, chattering in angry competition".

Mice were anesthetized, placed on an adhesive tray in a prone position with limbs spread.

The plant grows freely with limbs spreading in every which direction and has mostly oval-shaped leaves of gray green and small pea-sized fruit.

Animals would be heavier then, so perhaps they would evolve with more limbs to spread out their weight more evenly.