wingspread
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wingspread
Example Sentences
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By comparison, the snappily dressed kids in group shots typically arrange themselves in poses, crouching with their arms upraised or wingspread like the Jackson 5 or folded on their chests B-boy style.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
“I had prepared her for the nightly invasion of bats … but she had not expected so many, she said, or that they would have a three-foot wingspread and such big teeth,” he remembered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2014
It may be, as Author Philip Hallie puts it, that altruism "lacked the glamour, the wingspread of other wartime events."
From Time Magazine Archive
With its 320-ft. wingspread, 220-ft. fuselage and 8-story-tall tail, the Hughes plywood flying boat was one of the fiascoes of World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stood there as if be were drying himself in the sun, with a wingspread of about eleven feet, a bright orange head and a magenta carbuncle.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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