sprawling

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• Other historical mysteries re-examined at the Maryland conference include Alexander the Great, who amassed a sprawling empire by age 30, but died in 323 B.C. at age 32. Solving Darwin's Medical Mystery
• 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
• 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 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
• 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 station is so sprawling and packed with vehicles that it took longer than usual for Discovery to be tightly cinched down. Discovery arrives at space station
• There was no time now to call at the hostel so we drove through the sprawling, congested town and out again into the country on dirt tracks. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
• There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets.
• From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.