1.   I shoved a hand into a pocket and pulled out a ball and placed it on his outstretched palm.

2.   He smacks my outstretched palm.

3.   Most impressively, the hummingbirds drink from hand-held bottles of sugar water, and the tiny finches flutter around outstretched palms packed full of birdseed.

4.   One ragged man sidled up to him with a sad story and an outstretched palm.

5.   Suddenly, it was not difficult to imagine myself at an immigration counter in some sorry third-world airport, gaping at an impatiently outstretched palm.

6.   The outstretched palms of acceptance and surrender peek out from every corner.

7.   The sobering truth is the wide eyes and sweeping smiles are gone, replaced by outstretched palms.

8.   The walk back was a long gauntlet of outstretched palms and whispered demands, and the car departed in a light shower of local blessings.

9.   When Campbell honored the rescue workers at a ceremony Wednesday, throngs of small children surrounded Moseley, begging him to sign their outstretched palms.

10.   Abdul Ghafar slapped a handful of still-steaming meat into her outstretched palm.