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    Use "sprawling" in a sentence

    sprawling example sentences

    sprawling


    1. It was a pretty good imitation of what he would have liked back home, a sprawling ranch built out of earthenware blocks with a tile and beam roof


    2. Herndon could still remember the construction of the Presidente Lula in low orbit above the Sao Luis Megalopolis, then a sprawling collection of seventeen million in balconied skyscrapers overlooking yacht basins all around the bay, the whole peninsula nothing but skyscrapers along the reconstituted beaches, or industrial plant in the interior


    3. I realise Athens too has its unfair share of insidious tourist traps just like Cornwall and no doubt the traffic is nightmare and yes, it's a sprawling jumble of concrete and marble, of ancient and modern, of the implausible and the miraculous, but then they say Athens teems with spectacular sights, superb cafes, and much more that you just won't find in any modern city


    4. The house itself was long and sprawling, but at this point he was on the second floor


    5. Omaha, Nebraska was a city of over 30,000 people, sprawling and alive


    6. Heather was sent sprawling, her face hitting the dirt


    7. And the mountain itself, a sprawling city surrounding the Great Red Wall


    8. We walked through the sprawling gardens, along a path lined with tulips and carnations


    9. sent you sprawling all those years ago


    10. But when she tried to stand her legs seemed to vanish from under her and she fell sprawling on her face

    11. ’ He rolled out of his bed as the first blow struck the ship, and was promptly sent sprawling


    12. At that precise moment, Forgo spun around and delivered a meaty left hook to the Mayor’s jaw and sent the politician sprawling to the ground, splendidly and completely unconscious


    13. The sprawling complex covered a city block and included a running track buried under a white field of snow, steam rooms, heated baths, and the area they approached: the rings


    14. Longleaf delivered a ferocious punch to the shorter pirate, sending him sprawling, but a second later the two Men set to him with their own blades, clanging up a storm


    15. Over the generations the sett had grown so large and sprawling that most other badgers left it well alone, even Evaert giving it a wide birth during his attack on Boddaert's Realm


    16. It is easy enough, I suppose, for café latte types earning above average salaries to criticize the company from the vantage point of high-rise corporate towers and sprawling industrial parks where office workers, comfortably ensconced in the privacy of their cubicles, routinely shop on their Internets or indulge in a casual game of solitaire while pretending to look busy


    17. Geographically sprawling and covering a diversity of terrain, one minute you were downtown, and then you were out in the country in about five minutes


    18. In the southwest, it was a sprawling mixture of heavy petro-chemical industry and post-industrial decay


    19. The boy, so close now that he was unable to stop, slammed straight into him, sprawling face first onto the path


    20. It was a sprawling complex of warehouses, machine shops, assembly areas, repair areas, scrap and storage areas, barracks, officer’s quarters, and finally the aerodrome

    21. that I now thought of as home: the sprawling, friendly and


    22. Behind him were the old goat horns, sprawling a metre across the wall


    23. Suddenly, he clutched his hand to his chest and pitched forward, sprawling onto the table


    24. Twisting my neck all out of joint, I tried to peer back over my shoulder to get some kind of impression, but the campus was pretty sprawling


    25. She had been quite dizzy and disoriented from labor when they brought her in and she had given only a passing amount of attention to the sprawling system of caves that seemed to branch out in many different directions


    26. A lightning move to his left, a vicious swing of the paddle sent his victim sprawling before he could raise an arm in defense


    27. bend, sending Jessie sprawling to her knees as she ran through


    28. Three months had passed and the sun cast its glow over the sprawling Victorian façade of the Karen Phillimore Centre, a large mental health institute that dominated the surrounding parkland on the borders of Epping Forest


    29. Adrinius moved to Zacchaeus with his vampire grace, sprawling his hands on his brother’s oversized back, he heaved the monster back, propelling Zacchaeus onto the floor, in a seated position


    30. ” Jesse looked up to see the hulking man shake his head slowly before a blow to the side of Jesse’s face sent her sprawling to the floor

    31. Prince Gotimin of The Elves of Sming presented them with Winghoof Estate, a working horse ranch boasting some six hundred and forty of the finest riding horses, complete with a sprawling home of sixteen rooms, outbuildings, gardens, and a few farm animals, as well as an established staff of ranch hands


    32. On the way, he made a point of taking time to show me the modern campus of Ithaca College and the sprawling grounds of world-renowned Cornell University


    33. The gates were suddenly flung open and with chains removed, the two were kicked, pummeled, and shoved into the compound, where they stumbled and fell, sprawling face-first on the ground


    34. The ogre took another swing with his shortened weapon, but Talia danced inside his swing and neatly tripped him, sending him sprawling forward


    35. They climbed into a battered black jeep with no top, and Myers drove them to the main gate of the sprawling air base


    36. He felt Frankel’s gasp in his thoughts rather than heard it, and then Thomas raised his hand, and a stinging slap sent the Lost One sprawling to the icy ground


    37. pummeled, and shoved into the compound, where they stumbled and fell, sprawling face-first


    38. The men cheered and looked out at the incredible expanse of sprawling Los Angeles, slightly fuzzed by smog, that was their first sight of the U


    39. chatting, a lake lined with trees and grass sprawling out behind


    40. sprawling my legs out lazily in front of me

    41. creature inside the sprawling herd


    42. She snapped out a hard jab that sent him sprawling through the crowd to the horrified screams of the little old ladies who abruptly dropped their hymnals and fled from the developing mayhem


    43. His sword missed the agile target but the shield bash that followed hit home hard, sending his opponent sprawling backwards, a trickle of blood running from his nose


    44. A third time he struggled and tripped again, sprawling over the coffer


    45. He tried again to rise, sprawling on his side and clutching his knee with both hands


    46. terrible sleeper, prone to snoring, hogging the sheets and sprawling her long limbs across the


    47. As he approached he took a well aimed swing at the blond man and sent him flying backwards into the other car driver knocking him sprawling


    48. one of the most sprawling of homesteads and being one of the wealthiest men, probably


    49. Her eyes widened as I slammed into her and she went sprawling in the snow


    50. under the cover of the sprawling trees and heading up a hundred feet and along a trail that










































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    Synonyms for "sprawling"

    sprawl sprawling rambling straggling straggly

    "sprawling" definitions

    an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about


    spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly