Sensory Word of the Week | splayed

verb / spleyd / splay / splays / splaying

(Patterns & Shapes) set strangely wide apart or spread out on a slanted angle

It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayedverb / spleyd / splay / splays / splaying (Patterns & Shapes) set strangely wide apart or spread out on a slanted angle It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I kn in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.

Suzanne Finnamore (Split: A Memoir of Divorce)

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