What is "sprawly"

Usage examples of "sprawly".

Tumbull, my writing was too large and sprawly, and a number of the labels I had to do again.

Brion saw the two peasants disappear from his view behind a hairy, sprawly clump of furze that reared up in the darkness.

Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.

All that night the sprawly writing on the pages, the constant mistakes in spelling and grammar, and the weird punctuation danced before his eyes.

But those times were like a lost paradise, and the sprawly corrals around the place now stood near empty and growing over in ragweed.

The reason why the house was so sprawly was because its various owners, through many generations, had added whatever they saw fit, and in keeping with that custom had neglected the portions of the house they did not like.

Ahead, barely distinguishable against the cloudy sky, he saw a sprawly building that looked like an old farmhouse.

Taking an upgrade, the car came to a sprawly bungalow that stretched among the trees.

The house was ugly, its sprawly wings out of proportion to its low two stories.

Such trifling things as gunfire were too well muffled in the great sprawly mansion to be heard from so remote a spot as the old watchtower.

The eating joint was a sprawly place, badly lighted except near the front and along the bar that followed the inner side wall.

The building was a sprawly thing, three stories high, with wings and els that stretched everywhere like monstrous arms.

Moonlight might have revealed him in the shape of a great beetle, as sprawly as the building over which he crawled.

He landed in sprawly fashion on the flat roof of an old three story house wedged between the office building and a warehouse.

Their improvised gaming room was located five miles from the sprawly town of Mountainside, the county seat of Lawson County.