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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(31) Sprawl kills, as it turns out, and not just pygmy owls.
(32) If you want the definition of urban sprawl, look at one-acre or three-acre lots.
(33) As long as that remains the status quo, there will be uncontrolled sprawl in Tucson.
(34) On one side of them was a sprawl of turquoise cabbages, frilly and tight-waisted, ready to bolt.
(35) At that time, little was done to control the urban sprawl.
(36) These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and ribbon development continued more or less unabated.
(37) They identify the mechanisms that make suburban sprawl possible, almost inevitable.
(38) And where was his companion, who went down with him just now,[http://sentencedict.com/sprawl.html] into a sprawl of vegetation?
(39) She followed, more cautious now, making her way through the thick sprawl of greenery towards the house.
(40) Another issue is urban sprawl.
(41) This area is a classic example of urban sprawl.
(42) New development and urban sprawl now surround it.
(43) Measuring Urban Sprawl in China.
(44) I counted nearly a dozen large cranes looming over construction sites along the beachfront Msasani Peninsula, a sprawl of resorts and restaurants catering mostly to Western tourists.
(45) Beaumont , Constance E . How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities . National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994.
(46) Satisfied, sun-warmed, we sprawl in the grass and watch our kites cavort.
(47) After days of days of hard exercise and practice, my son could sprawl slowly and stand up to shamble a bit eventually!
(48) Explanation: Curtains of shimmering green light sprawl across this gorgeous night skyscape.
(49) How to control and guide industrial land sprawl of small town is the key of sustainable utilization of land resource.
(50) Planners throughout the 20 th century have advocated containment of urban sprawl through a variety of means.
(51) Venezuela's capital, dominated by a chaotic sprawl of hillside slums, has become the second most violent city in Latin America[sentencedict.com], after San Salvador.
(52) While one component may be adjacent to another, the dominant characteristic of sprawl is that each component is strictly segregated from the others.
(53) We must stop the sprawl and take the damaged earth and find ways to rehabilitate it to become livable and producible.
(54) The marsupial has been in decline for decades due to urban sprawl from car accidentsdog attacks.
(55) Wind-sculpted dunes sprawl across the Sesriem and Sossusvlei dune area in Namibia's Namib Desert.
(56) Constance E . How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities . National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994.
(57) Handfuls of men play cards and chat laconically, but most travellers sprawl across the tiny tables, against windows or over each other, arms thrown up to cover their eyes from the harsh lights.
(58) The whole layout provides a totally new alternative between high density and'urban sprawl '.
(59) Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about before tightening it suddenly to great effect.
(60) Recline & Sprawl is an amusingly named furniture shop in London.