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sprawl

verb as in sit or lie spread out

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Layer in a few tactile moments: handwritten menus or place cards if that’s your vibe, or simply a stack of good blankets and genuinely comfortable pillows for that glorious post-meal sprawl on the couch.

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Los Angeles’s urban sprawl and congested freeways make it a prime test market for air taxis, industry insiders say.

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Tano is sprawled on the sand below, in the middle of the mess.

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They ended up sprawled on the bakehouse floor, a tragic tangle of limbs.

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There they crashed headlong into the source of the bellowing: a tall woman in a fur cape, who now lay sprawled on the floor with three orange-splattered ghosts hovering above her.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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