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present participle and gerund of sprawl examples
comparative more sprawling, superlative most sprawling
That sprawls examples
Expansive; extensive quotations examples
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.
1972, Seymour Topping, “Departure”, in Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, page 101
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.
2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54
plural sprawlings
The act of one who sprawls. quotations examples
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.
1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 176