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sprawling::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rambling, straggling, straggly |
sprawling handwriting.
Examples of sprawling
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State workers Nam Join Tran and Steven Chi gushed over the sprawling new museum.
From the sacbee.com
They work in shifts and live in the sprawling factory complex in southern China.
From the cnn.com
Zynga's logo is a dog, and it adorns nearly every wall of its sprawling offices.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I am always impressed at how meticulous the owners keep this sprawling property.
From the denverpost.com
There was a sprawling kitchen and a pair of couches on the polished wood floors.
From the post-gazette.com
The kitchen hosts a sprawling serving bar that facilitates holiday entertaining.
From the dispatch.com
A sprawling Ward, spinning around, hit it over the goal line with his right pad.
From the newsobserver.com
Today, this sprawling capital, Africa's largest city, teems with life and sound.
From the cnn.com
Anyone who has visited the sprawling park knows that it's a daunting experience.
From the post-gazette.com
- Conurbation: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
- Sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
- An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
- Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far"
- (sprawling) spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
- A sprawl is a martial arts and wrestling term for a defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, typically double or single leg takedown attempts. ...
- An ungainly sprawling posture; A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city; To sit with the limbs spread out; To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle
- (sprawling) That sprawls; Expansive; extensive
- (sprawling) with branches spreading horizontally in a disordered fashion.
