sprawl

IPA: sprˈɔɫ

noun

  • An ungainly sprawling posture.
  • A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
  • (wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.

verb

  • To sit with the limbs spread out.
  • To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
  • (wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
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Examples of "sprawl" in Sentences

  • It is highly branched and sprawling.
  • A sprawling mess of an article is not.
  • Sorry for the sprawling nature of this.
  • They appear in sprawl and accelerated it.
  • Bart and Lisa are sprawled on the carpet.
  • It stands today on a sprawling campus of.
  • It stands today on a sprawling campus of .
  • That love is undermined by sprawling, arrogant, aimless government.
  • The pockets in Sprawl sweatshirts are oversized to accommodate gloves.
  • It tends to clamber to the tops of trees and shrubs, sprawling over the crowns.
  • The evidence that sprawl is the result of zoning strikes me as being rather weak.
  • But as Austin Bramwell points out at The American Conservative sprawl is also central planning:
  • The authors of Suburban Nation tell Gore and Bush to listen up — the antidote to sprawl is good old-fashioned town planning
  • We also have spontaneous interactions with our neighbors, to a much greater degree than people living in sprawl-style suburbs.
  • Theer's more kick an 'sprawl [Footnote: _Kick an' sprawl_ -- Strength, vitality.] in me than theer 'ave bin; an' I feels more hopeful like 'bout the future. "
  • But the model of their "sprawl" is quite a bit different: Zoom in and look closely; there's agricultural lands and woodland interspersed among the residential areas.
  • As soon as he posted his rude reply, the blogosphere lit up with arguments from progressive, conservative, and even libertarian writers claiming that sprawl is the result of central planning [...]
  • There is the familiar variety of mess, which we call sprawl; but there is another kind of mess that tends towards the singularity--the too-neat desk where the mess has been brought without resolving it into a singularity, where the will-to-mere-neatness has overruled the will-to-actual-order.

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