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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