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
In flight, its wingspread is seven feet; on the ground, it walks haughtily through marshes in search of frogs and snakes, or performs its pre-mating dance with rapid grace.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the largest of all sea birds, it develops a wingspread of 7 ft.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The great eagle, with its six-foot wingspread, did not see him.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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