Synonym: expand, extend, fan out, spread, stretch out. Similar words: sprawling, crawl, drawl, spray, scrawl, crawling, scrawled, dyspraxia. Meaning: [sprɔːl] 
n. 1. an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities 2. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about. v. 1. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out 2. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way.
n. 1. an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities 2. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about. v. 1. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out 2. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way. 
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(1) The beautifully landscaped gardens sprawl with lush vegetation.
(2) Once lovely countryside is absorbed by urban sprawl.
(3) I found a refreshing absence of industrial sprawl.
(4) The town seemed to sprawl for miles.
(5) The refugee camps sprawl across the landscape.
(6) He lay in a sprawl over the desk.
(7) He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed.
(8) We drove through miles of urban sprawl before we finally got out into the countryside.
(9) The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
(10) More freeways will just mean more urban sprawl.
(11) The middle-class neighborhoods sprawl outward from the city center.
(12) Some people call it rural sprawl.
(13) This factor had considerable importance in engendering urban sprawl.
(14) Nor are the results of urban sprawl always aesthetic.
(15) They soon left the urban sprawl of roundabouts[Sentence dictionary], sodium streetlights and Wimpey homes and Dexter began to speed along country lanes.
(16) His sprawl makes me seem like a silent, precise insect.
(17) Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills, but the window above my bed butted the neighbour's garage.
(18) We're doing all we can to inhibit urban sprawl and maintain the city's identity.
(19) Ribbon development, urban sprawl and scattered housing were all brought under reasonable control.
(20) The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
(21) If that section remains, it could help reveal just how much sprawl development is really costing us.
(22) The natural habitats of Britain's wildlife have been ravaged by urban sprawl and pollution.
(23) An outstanding feature of the interwar period was the sprawl of suburbia into the surrounding countryside, especially in the South East.
(24) The editor of a new national magazine called me up before Christmas and asked me to write a story about suburban sprawl.
(25) A last burst of effort heaved him over the stone edge of the gable to sprawl thankfully on the slates.
(26) The office was a former dental practice in the strip-mall sprawl of suburban San Diego.
(27) It negates home-field advantage for home-grown retailers and contributes to urban sprawl.
(28) They would exit under cover of darkness at one of numerous drop-zones fifty kilometres from the vast sprawl of Sagramaso City.
(29) In San Francisco such contenders as Wired magazine, the rattle-bearer of new media, cluster in an ill-defined sprawl.
(30) A fictionalised countryside comes back to brighten the dark heart of the urban sprawl.