Crossword clues for sprawling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprawl \Sprawl\ (spr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sprawled (spr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Sprawling.] [OE. spraulen; cf. Sw. sprattla to sprawl, dial. Sw. spralla, Dan. spr[ae]lle, spr[ae]lde, D. spartelen, spertelen, to flounder, to struggle.]
To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or trees; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
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To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled.
--L'Estrange.
Wiktionary
1 That sprawls 2 expansive; extensive n. The act of one who sprawls. v
(present participle of sprawl English)
WordNet
adj. spread out irregularly; "sat sprawled in the big armchair"; "the sprawling suburbs"; "a big sprawly city" [syn: sprawled, sprawly]
spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: straggling, straggly]
n. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl]
Usage examples of "sprawling".
The carriage turned onto a cross street and they passed an open gate, Alec glimpsed an expanse of open ground and beyond it a sprawling edifice of pale grey stone decorated along the battlements with patterns of black and white.
When Becker landed in Chicago, he immediately summoned a cab and spent the next half hour taking it out to the Inn By The Lake, a sprawling, half-century-old Lake Forest hostelry that had been added onto at least three times and somewhere along the way had given up all hope of ever appearing to be a unified structure.
Dusk was deepening into night as a low, sprawling, palisaded building that could only be the caravanserai came into view ahead.
Gazing down from the small balcony of an apartment perched high on the Lenin Hills, he scrutinized the sprawling cityscape spread out below him.
With Cokey scrambling for cover, and three crooks sprawling around him, The Shadow seemed certain of his mission.
Pete Ballou and Silk Dowdy, standing outside, saw their men come sprawling forth.
Five miles up from Point Dume, past the sprawling public beach at Zuma, and a left turn onto Broad Beach Road just past the rodeo rink at Trancas Canyon.
In some cities, half the population lived in the sprawling favela colonies.
I got a new hold of him as we staggered and plunged, roaring the while like the wild beasts we were, the teeth chattering in the Martian heads as they watched us, and then, exerting all my strength, lifted him fairly from his feet and with supreme effort swung him up, shoulder high, and with a mighty heave hurled him across the tables, flung that ambassador, whom no Martian dared look upon, crashing and sprawling through the gold and silver of the feast, whirled him round with such a splendid send that bench and trestle, tankards and flagons, chairs and cloths and candelabras all went down into thundering chaos with him, and the envoy only stayed when his sacred person came to harbour amongst the westral odds and ends, the soiled linen, and dirty platters of our wedding feast.
Tom and Asta started as the two men entered, dragging between them a sprawling, gangling form in a purple Uncle Sam suit.
We drove onward with the gemster, skirting Lake Victoria and out across a sprawling ruin the guidebooks called Uganda.
As they reached the outskirts of the village a sorry camel came with a sprawling gallop after them, and swaying and rolling above it was Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, his naboot of dom-wood across his knees.
Bossut had resumed his seat behind the desk and Goujon was sprawling between the desk and the prisoner.
He burst through the first two men sending them sprawling before they or any of the soldiers realized they were being attacked, and hacked at Yoshi who stared at him blankly for a split second.
Dave telling a group of delegates about the terrific time slot he had and how they must come to hear his presentation, and in a few minutes found ourselves on the main street of Hanga Roa, a sprawling town of low-rise buildings, never more than two stories, where apparently most of the 3,500 inhabitants of the island live.