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sprawlingspraw‧ling /ˈsprɔːlɪŋ $ ˈsprɒːl-/ adjective   - a sprawling city of 2.6 million
- Mexico City is a sprawling city of more than 20 million inhabitants.
- The sprawling conference and resort center even has its own transportation system.
- All experience shows that the best intelligence comes from small, well-run agencies, not huge sprawling empires.
- How was she supposed to concentrate with that sprawling figure almost in her line of vision?
- I will be profoundly relieved when I can escape from the prosaic explanations and defences of this present sprawling mess of words.
- It was written in a sprawling hand that was difficult to read.
- So, a little nervous of the sprawling city, Mavis moved in with Ronnie.
- Their function was to work, to procreate and to give place to the next generation; while the sprawling capital endured.
- There was a big dance floor and several sprawling tiers of tables and bars.
- They lend to an airport lounge the look of a grotesque, sprawling creche peopled by monster babies.
when people or things are spread over a wide area► scattered things that are scattered are spread over a large area in an irregular or untidy way: scattered about/over/among etc: · There were books scattered all about their cottage.· Pieces of twisted metal and rusted pipe lay scattered around the yard. ► spread out things that are spread out are spread over a large area with a lot of space between them: spread out on/among/across: · Diane had her newspaper spread out all over the floor.· Several small cabins were spread out across the property. ► sprawling spread across a wide area - use this about towns, buildings, or groups of buildings that you think take up too much space and are ugly or unpleasant: · The sprawling conference and resort center even has its own transportation system.· a sprawling city of 2.6 million ► dotted if a number of things of the same type are dotted around an area, they are spread over it irregularly and unevenly: dotted around/along/here and there etc: · All we saw were a few workmen's cottages dotted here and there along the road.· Picnic tables were dotted among the trees.dotted with: · Their street was dotted with burned-out and boarded-up buildings. ► strewn spread unevenly in a way that looks very untidy: strewn over/around etc: · Clothes were strewn all over the bedroom floor.strewn with: · Glover's yard was strewn with garbage and builders' debris. spreading over a wide area in an untidy or unattractive way:  a vast, sprawling city |