noun
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An ungainly sprawling posture.
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A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
verb
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To sit with the limbs spread out.
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To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
Examples of sprawl in a Sentence
The city growth caused a sprawl of houses.
It should be big enough to keep the sand off of you and your belongings, even when you sprawl out to soak up the sun.
By the time we got home i was so hot i had to just sprawl on the bed.
Each deluxe room is approximately 385 square feet, giving you plenty of room to wander, sprawl, or enjoy the gorgeous city and courtyard views from your window.
They grow well if given enough sunlight and room to sprawl and grow outward.
Some wineries closed because of Prohibition and some just disappeared due to the encroachment of L.A.'s residential and industrial sprawl over the last century.
Urban sprawl The car has also given rise to urban sprawl.
Excellent for both a day trip or camping, it has corner loops and pegs to secure it so you can sprawl to your heart's content.
There are eight room options from which to choose, starting with the Superior Guest Room, which is located on the lower levels and allows guests up to 480 square feet to stretch and sprawl.
The Green Party has discovered that Knowsley has not kept to the rules to stop the housing sprawl.
This approach needs to be worked out carefully to avoid urban sprawl.
In the cities sprawl increasingly " Gangs " which defend their areas with brutal force against intruders.
In fact, New Jersey is more rural than most people realize despite its stereotype of urban and suburban sprawl.
Enter the Reapers Sprawl, go up the ramp, and talk to the Kvatch guard locked in the cage.
The primary function of the Green Belt is to check unrestricted sprawl.
Despite its imposing skyline, Frankfurt itself has not suffered from vast urban sprawl like other European cities.
Green Belt is countryside next to urban areas where there is a risk that the openness will be invaded by urban sprawl.
Wide commons and dense woodlands offer a sharp contrast to the urban sprawl of the nearby city.
Shadow planning minister John Hayes accused the Government of failing to prevent urban sprawl.
Q. What were the Victorian ideas for containing sprawl and encouraging growth?
Instead we will safeguard and expand the green belt around towns and villages to stop urban sprawl.
By acting to check urban sprawl, Green Belt protects the countryside and prevents neighboring built-up areas merging into one another.
The siting of new built development in a concentrated form, around existing settlements, will avoid continuous urban sprawl along the roads.
The Vineries in Gillingham, Kent, seems, at first glance, much like any other slightly shabby urban sprawl.
But the cloister garth, as at Chichester, is not rectangular, and all the surrounding buildings are thus made to sprawl in a very awkward fashion.
Where Juncus spp. dominate, marsh bedstraw (Galium palustre) and greater bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus uliginosus) often sprawl among the rushes.
Imagine trying to create an urban beach amid the huge sprawl of the NEC in Birmingham.
The resulting server sprawl is costly in terms of capital and people needed to operate, manage, and upgrade new servers.
To this snd, they built a massive railroad hotel, in order to encourage an urban sprawl around it.