Sprawling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sprawling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of sprawl.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of sprawl.
More Meanings
- That sprawls; that spreads in a disorderly fashion.
- The act of one who sprawls.
Example Sentences
a sprawling cityscape
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.”
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.
Word Forms
- sprawlings
Synonyms for sprawling
Depending on context, synonyms include extended, sprawl, untidy, straggly, sprawled, sprawly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sprawly, straggly, untidy, extended, straggling, complex.
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