sprawl

[ UK /spɹˈɔːl/ ]
[ US /ˈspɹɔɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
  2. an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
VERB
  1. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
  2. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
    Branches straggling out quite far
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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.
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