Sentence examples for splay from inspiring English sources

These are large, carnivorous, cricket-like insects whose feet splay out wildly in different directions.

Ionian (Chios, Samos) and island (Naxos) sculptors took the lead in developing decorative schemes for rendering the fall and splay of the folds of the loosely draped Ionic dress (chiton) and overmantle (himation).

The stems splay out as they grow to make a plant about 50cm wide.

Breatho trail shoe £69, vivobarefoot.com Designed for off-road running, this shoe will allow your toes to splay and the foot to flex naturally as if bare.

But what has made him an artist, and a popular artist, is the completeness of his performances: the level of concentration, the fullness of ambition, the sheer amount of detail, with the cast of the shoulder, the angle of the jaw, even the splay of the fingers, all deployed in the service of a single, pressing act of imagination.

He wears a top hat, like the Artful Dodger, and his hands could be a child's drawing of hands — a splay of simple spikes.

But it is a pedigree sense of menace now, that startling natural flexibility married to a splay-footed sprint to the wicket, and a sense from the opening overs at the SCG of a thrillingly theatrical spectacle in play.

Affecting the gait of a splay-footed giant, Law is a mass of pneumatic muscles, gleaming in the moonlit fog.

(Williams's jaunty yet awkward splay-footed walk foreshadows that of Chaplin's Little Tramp).

Though she didn't need a walker, he had noticed her splay-footed gait as she came in.

In between, what we get is largely duets, with, as usual, much splay-legged action for the women.