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sprawling

adjective as in recumbent

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Staffing has been a particular struggle for HammerDown, the destination smokehouse on a stretch of rural Virginia highway that looks to be losing a battle with suburban sprawl.

Similarly, Capretz said she hopes the new board puts a stop to all planned sprawl development still percolating in the county’s planning system.

If elections are a technology, then the machine consists of an enormous sprawl of moving parts that goes well beyond what most people realize.

SONGS, sandwiched into the narrow strip between the sea and the highway that connects the urban sprawls of San Diego and Los Angeles, began operations in the late 1960s and churned out carbon-free energy for decades.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced a plan earlier this year to densify development and cut back on urban sprawl, though the City Council has not yet taken it up for approval.

A shot rang out as Brinsley took his own life, sprawling with the gun at his side.

He presides over a sprawling media and sports empire that spans from the Lakers to The Chronicles of Narnia.

Now, AIG was a huge, sprawling company, with lots of assets and decent insurance businesses, especially in Asia.

Inherent Vice brings you a sprawling, unobstructed narrative, and then asks you to savor as much as you can.

Or have you delved into the sprawling waters of spin-offs, like Dating Naked, maybe?

The lazy giant was sprawling on the most comfortable of the sofas; the pair were alone in the dainty little drawing-room.

Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.

A few minutes later Romanoff was sprawling in a large easy-chair with his feet close to the fire.

Woot went sailing through the air and fell sprawling upon the rocky floor far beyond the place where the Dragon Tribe was grouped.

Sprawling across the table, his huge head lying upon his hands, she beheld the Chief Factor, mumbling in incoherent phrases.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sprawling, such as: decumbent, flat, horizontal, level, procumbent, and prostrate.

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

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