Meaning

Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
2. Sprawling over or across.

Example Sentences

1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.

1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86, a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces

[…] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,

[…] I see a bicycle asprawl in abandon among the ferns, handlebars turned sideways and its front wheel jutting up at a somehow unseemly angle,

All through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolton’s blood-soiled face and drunkenly reckless laugh had been with her,

Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.

From a distance the wood looked like a cloak, flung carelessly asprawl the shoulder of the hill,

[…] she thought that not for anything would she wish him to see her naked thus, naked and cut, asprawl a windowsill.

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Use asprawl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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