Definition of outflung in English:
outflung
adjectiveˈaʊtflʌŋaʊtˈflʌŋ
(especially of a person's arm) thrown out to one side.
he turned, one arm outflung
Example sentencesExamples
- If outflung arms and exaggerated rolling steps suggested pilgrimage, later passages saw the apparently infirm passed forward from one dancer to another.
- During this period, he often assembled pieces of paper, overlapping them in an irregular fashion so as to accommodate the bent legs and outflung arms of the depicted body.
- But El Greco's figures crowd together; their arms, even when outflung, tend to be absorbed into a complex surface pattern; and the marble architectural settings with their converging perspectives are just backdrops.
- A flashy smile accompanied the last statement with outflung arms and another large sigh.
- A wooden spoon had fallen next to his outflung hand.
Rhymes
among, bung, clung, dung, flung, hung, lung, rung, shantung, slung, sprung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, underslung, wrung, young