Sprawling

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of sprawl.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of sprawl
2. That sprawls; that spreads in a disorderly fashion.
3. The act of one who sprawls.

Example Sentences

a sprawling cityscape

We looked over Hoihow, a dirty sprawling city of 250,000 people, many of them living in old two-story buildings made of mud and white plaster, across the narrow Hainan Strait to the Liuchow Peninsula on the mainland.

It's close to the sprawling University of Birmingham campus and the ever-growing Queen Elizabeth Hospital site, which also includes a large medical school.

Donald Trump has decided instead that the NEH’s funds would be better spent on his own dream project: a sprawling sculpture garden with 250 likenesses of people he deems “American heroes.”

Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

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Word Forms

• more sprawling
• most sprawling
• sprawlings

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