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  • She would be bending over to scramble up tricky slants, and perhaps taking spread-legged tumbles.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • You can see how important they are in the way they sit, spread-legged, taking up room.

    The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

  • President Bush emerged from a fighter wearing a flight suit, stood spread-legged on the naked steel deck, waving his thunder bolt helmet and declaring, "Mission Accomplished!"

    LAME DUCK BUSH QUACKS WHILE WE SQUAWK AT FOUR BUCK GAS 2008

  • Had she possessed a weapon, the time to get him would have been now, as he spread-legged himself before the toilet bowl.

    The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008

  • I think her foot was meant to trace the floor but Jason got too much speed on that swing, which led to too much height, and keeping her foot on the floor meant making an ugly, spread-legged line.

    Tonya Plank: Cristian Soldiers On and Makes Dancing With the Stars Top 5 2008

  • The victim, 22-year-old Hollywood wanna-be Elizabeth Short, got her nickname from the flowers she wore in her jet-black hair; her corpse was neatly sliced in half and posed spread-legged in a vacant lot.

    Old Case, New Twist 2007

  • Scroll down for some less worksafe work from Newport -- hand-beaded trading cards bearing the images of gay porn stars, Playboy tableaus, Jenny McCarthy spread-legged centerfold shots, and Icelandic strippers.

    Boing Boing: May 30, 2004 - June 5, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Seriously, when every time you close your eyes you see a row of naked bodies chained spread-legged, arms behind their backs, to a wall ... just waiting ... yeah.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006

  • Also, look Marvin up on Wikipedia, his bio is spread-legged before you there.

    Well, Well, Well... The Daily Growler 2006

  • Said good girl trots out in tight jeans and bleats an endless, featureless country thing that involves long-held notes and that teeter-tottering dance done in a spread-legged, bent-kneed stance that the camera forces us to view from the least small-town, mom-pleasing angle.

    "American Idol" -- songs of the past few years. Ann Althouse 2005

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