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UK
/spɹˈɔːl/
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[ US /ˈspɹɔɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɹɔɫ/ ]
NOUN
- an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
- an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
VERB
- sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
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go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
Branches straggling out quite far
How To Use sprawl In A Sentence
- They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
- Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
- I found a refreshing absence of industrial sprawl.
- Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
- The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
- The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
- More important in MMA is skills, fast hips, a good sprawl, well rounded skill and natural genetics. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6402
- That allowed him to adjust and adapt his sprawling tale. Times, Sunday Times
- Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws. Times, Sunday Times
- The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
