sprawling

Speech parts

1. sprawling - Noun

2. sprawling - Adjective

3. sprawling - Verb

5. sprawling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sprawl

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Examples

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. Kenneth Grahame

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world. Dylan Thomas

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people. James Jones

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. Bill Bryson

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. Jasper Fforde

The problem is that the central government in a sprawling country of over 325 million can't provide solidarity (without resorting to anti-democratic means)-only the institutions of civil society (faith, family, etc.) can fill the holes in our souls. Jonah Goldberg

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