sprawled

Example Sentences

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Sprawled in the living room, they talk passionately about their lives, the conversations swerving across topics.

From BBC • May 26, 2024

Sprawled across several inland cities, the Orange school district serves 25,000 students and has become more diverse in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Sprawled over more than 450 square miles, Los Angeles has a government structure that was designed to resist the concentration of power.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022

Sprawled over land the size of 20 football fields, the campus houses factories, living quarters for 40,000 workers, some living 12 per room, and even a supermarket.

From Reuters • May 8, 2022

Sprawled out flat in the aisle on the sanctuary floor, I still held the Sunday school reports in my hands.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry