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 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 between my two fat cats, I sleep the sleep of the dead until my itchy brain jerks awake at 3 p.m.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2022

Sprawled across the plants, we trained binoculars on a pod of humpback whales that had entered the fjord, counting the flukes of three, four, more.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

Sprawled across my bed, Sir Fig Newton paused his afternoon tongue bath.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas