SPRAWL in a Sentence
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39 example sentences for SPRAWL, such as:
1. There were weeds sprawling in the yard.
2. He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV.
3. I spent the evening sprawled on the sofa, watching TV.
4. He seated himself again, sprawling his long legs comfortably.
5. As he spoke he reeled, and fell sprawling face upwards on the ground.
2. He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV.
3. I spent the evening sprawled on the sofa, watching TV.
4. He seated himself again, sprawling his long legs comfortably.
5. As he spoke he reeled, and fell sprawling face upwards on the ground.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SPRAWL
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sprawl
v. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
n. an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
2 She never came wearily home across the fields and saw the sprawling white house that her heart did not swell with love and the joy of homecoming.
3 The man crashed backwards to the floor, sprawling into the dining room with a violence that shook the furniture.
4 Melanie's eyes took in the scene below in its entirety, the sprawling blue-clad body in the red pool, the sewing box beside him, Scarlett, barefooted and gray-faced, clutching the long pistol.
5 He seated himself again, sprawling his long legs comfortably.
6 But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
7 In a bound, I was on my feet, and easily sent him sprawling to the floor.
8 As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor.
9 He saw that the ground in the deep shadows was cluttered with men, sprawling in every conceivable posture.
10 The instant Haley touched the saddle, the mettlesome creature bounded from the earth with a sudden spring, that threw his master sprawling, some feet off, on the soft, dry turf.
11 Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right and he was sprawling on his back on the floor.
12 The way seemed interminable, and the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider.
13 As he spoke he reeled, and fell sprawling face upwards on the ground.
14 With one hand she was supporting the fat baby that lay floating and sprawling on its back, while with the other she squeezed the sponge over him.
15 Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint.
Example Sentence:
1 When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand.
2 With large ground to wall windows, a sprawling living room, a ravishing indoor pool and 2 main bedrooms - all are designed in the most elegant way possible.
3 "The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away -- Blessed be the name of the Lord! But it's so hard -- Oh, it's so hard! Only last Saturday my Joe busted a firecracker right under my nose and I knocked him sprawling.
4 And there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
5 He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV.
6 There were weeds sprawling in the yard.
7 Agriculture was California; there were no sprawling defense and aerospace industries, there was no Silicon Valley.
8 Just a few years ago Wuhan, a sprawling metropolis in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, exemplified China's economic woes.
9 Literally Buddha Place, Boudhanath is a village nestled within the sprawling Nepalese city; even though it's now a part of Kathmandu, it retains the self-contained cosiness of a village.
10 She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up.
11 I spent the evening sprawled on the sofa, watching TV.