How to Use sprawl in a Sentence

sprawl

1 of 2 verb

• The city sprawls along the coastline.
• The bushes were sprawling along the road.
• She tripped and went sprawling into the table.
• The kids sprawled on the floor to watch TV.
• The elephant isn’t just in the room, it’s sprawled across both of your laps, singing show tunes.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The highlight of the design is the sprawling flybridge.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2023
• Jurors were shown images of her body sprawled out on the floor in a doorway.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 May 2023
• The great room is undoubtedly the heart of the sprawling mansion.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
• The legs are thin, offering more space for people to sprawl out.
  — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• About two hours away from Salt Lake City, out in the sprawling desert, bands of wild mares and stallions roam free.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2023
• The arachnid lies still, sprawled across the floor with one of its six legs pointed in each direction.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• How to Get Around Eleuthera is a sprawling 110-mile island with a rural landscape.
  — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2024
• These are the best cold plunge tubs for any size space, sprawling mansion or cozy apartment, and for any size person.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
• The palatial pad sits on over five sprawling acres in Greenwich, tucked away on a private country lane.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2023
• Jose Perez sprawled out on the court for a loose ball, corralling it and calling time put on what was crucial possession late.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• That sense of place applies to two principal settings as well as the sprawling space in between.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• But for those who like to stretch out, a rectangular shape offers more space lengthwise to sprawl.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• In the snapshot the retired soccer star is sprawled on the ground beneath a large TV wearing nothing but a tight pair of white boxer briefs.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2023
• Rosewood Bermuda is set on a sprawling, private stretch of pink-sand beach, the perfect spot to be marooned for a long weekend.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
• This level also features a sprawling terrace and a gym.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 July 2023
• Often there are only two deputies on a shift patrolling the county's sprawling 3,200 square miles, nearly twice the land mass of Rhode Island.
  — courier-journal.com, 31 May 2023
• This isn’t the first time Stefani has featured her husband’s sprawling ranch on social media.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2023
• Each will pull you into reading in a different way: Some are brief and succinct; others are long and sprawling.
  — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Today, home is that tired apartment in a sprawling neighborhood near the city’s eastern border.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Along the way, Kay will explore bustling cities and cantinas, race across sprawling outdoor landscapes on her speeder, and pilot her ship the Trailblazer through the wilds of space.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
• Crews have been working to install a sprawling cover designed to suppress odors in the affected portion of the landfill.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• On Miles’ 30th birthday that July, the company flew him down to Austin, Texas — his first time on a private jet — and moved him into a sprawling ranch complex outside the city.
  — Avery Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• My family is from Medellín, a sprawling city nestled in the Andes Mountains.
  — Isa Zapata, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• But those disasters are hardly mistakes, and every drip, whoosh, splotch, and crinkle adds to the sprawling intrigue contained in each work.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
• Stark white and sprawled on a bluff, the Queen-Anne-style pile seemed like an apparition from a bygone era—a universe away from the drab prairie-hugging bungalows of my Chicago suburb.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023

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sprawl

2 of 2 noun

• Just take the sprawl (and much of the risk of injury) out of the equation.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
• So part of the book’s shape comes from wanting a sense of sprawl.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• The city is the densest core of a region known for sprawl.
  — Meris Lutz, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• The Vanguard live set is more of a sprawl, its 11 tracks spread over two CDs.
  — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• The massive sprawl of Game of Thrones could be both blessing and curse.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
• The home has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and sprawls over 1.5 acres of land.
  — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 3 Aug. 2023
• On my last day in town, King takes me for a drive through the east end’s dismal sprawl.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• For the most part, this campus is a sprawl of bunker-ish 1970s buildings.
  — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• And unlike Chicago, the Texas sprawl requires a car to get around.
  — Kayla Hui, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• The homes that are visible are scattered in what was, at the time, the northern edge of Phoenix sprawl.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
• In has left me cold in any way, this sprawl is exactly why.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2022
• But conditions improve from that point, even with the unchecked sprawl.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
• This can include jumps with weighted balls, sprawls, and Turkish get-ups.
  — Women's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
• One family walked on a rickety pathway of boards over a sprawl of sticky black mud in their yard.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• This abyssal plain sprawls over 2.3 million square miles, over half the size of the contiguous U.S., and plunges to depths exceeding 3 miles in some places.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Pastures hold shorthorn cattle and horses, while hay fields sprawl to the pecan grove that lines the edge of the property.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
• The restaurant is on Baldwin 181 on the southeast side of Fairhope, just south of a Walmart, just past the edge of the sprawl eating away at the pastoral Baldwin of old.
  — al, 6 Oct. 2022
• Lush, green plants, each one watered every Wednesday, sprawl and stretch toward the sun.
  — Charisma Madarang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2022
• The show’s variety and sprawl was an occasional deficit, but this goes too far the other way.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2022
• As new immigrants chose to make their homes closer to the heart of the city, Leipzig’s suburban sprawl started to contract again.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2022
• Many Berlin artists have been pushed to the periphery, into less vaunted neighborhoods across the city’s 340-square-mile sprawl.
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• The challenge for the uninitiated is to get beyond the glossy marketing, the perk sprawl and the sheer allure of spending, to weigh the benefits against the costs.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2022
• Cate and Lathem refreshed half of the 3,000-square-foot sprawl, focusing on the dining room, living room, and bathroom.
  — Nafeesah Allen, House Beautiful, 21 May 2022
• Once the Sunset Limited crosses the border into Texas, the sprawl of Houston looms on the horizon.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
• Finally, my account is set up and the sprawl of Erewhon’s bounty is at my fingertips.
  — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
• The sprawl still feels distant up Interstate 15 in Leeds, where there is no school and the only grocery store recently closed.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• From country land to a suburban sprawl Richards has seen the area grow from farmland and a AA school to its current status as the biggest public school in the state.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 20 July 2022
• As the summer of 1978 sprawls forward, and as the Red Sox rally, Marty gets revved by the possibility that this, at last, could be their year.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 June 2023
• Its 18-song sprawl was recorded at the exact middle point of the band’s career, with a balance of their early playfulness and their more ambitious later work.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2024
• But this couple had moved from the Norfolk area where the cost of farmland had become prohibitive due to uncontrolled suburban sprawl.
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024