Sentence examples for outstretched against from inspiring English sources

It's maybe because of this abiding sense of a life – and a life's work - arrested that one of my favourite of these photographs is of a young man caught mid-flight, leaping from a rooftop, his arms outstretched against a grainy blue sky.

In The Photobook: A History, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger suggest one possible reading: "One climatic image of silhouetted birds in formation, wings outstretched against a grainy sky, metamorphoses into a wire news service image of overheard warplanes – a significant and traumatic image for postwar Japan".

Somehow, as the wave jacked over the inside bar, he slipped down the face early enough to make a turn, and then drew a breathtaking line and ran for forty yards under a ledging lip, his arms outstretched against a backlighted wall, before he finally straightened off, escaping the lip's explosion by sailing far out onto the flat water in front of the wave.

Twelve feet in the air, she pauses mid flight as I flash past, the diagonal of her wings stilled, pinned outstretched against the grey; she turns her head from left to right, tracing a deliberate arc with her hooped bill, truly, in Ted Hughes' phrase, "a wet-footed god of the horizons".

Sylvester Stallone supposedly offered $1 million for "Cat Girl"–a glorious painting of a naked Frazetta heroine in a dark green forest, arms outstretched against a moss-covered branch.

Carpet moth (genus Trichophaga), any of several small, delicate moths in the order Lepidoptera that settle with their broad, patterned carpetlike wings (span 2 4 cm; 0.8 1.6 inch) outstretched and flattened against the resting surface.

Often the horse would have its ears back against the head with its neck outstretched.

For a split second the animal appeared like some vast and improbable whale-angel against the sky, its huge, gnarled flippers outstretched like wings.

His arms were outstretched.

Aisyah's arms were outstretched.

His muscular, chain-draped arms are outstretched.