sprawl
Example Sentences
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Sprawl is usually cast as an L.A. negative, but it was good for art.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
Sprawl as a pejorative term for poorly planned development was gaining currency as a fledgling environmental movement emerged.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021
Sprawl eats up huge areas in very inefficient ways, destroying arable land and creating monocultures.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2017
Sprawl on a kidney-shaped banquette with a personal mixologist.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016
Still you eight-headed and lanky-limbed monster, you Sprawl and monopolise, spread and devour.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing sprawl
The Diary of Anne Frank
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