asprawl
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of asprawl
Example Sentences
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Or they could allow the actors to trace their familiar patterns, asprawl on the big stage, and catch as catch can.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over he went and down, asprawl, into the pit on the other side.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somehow it wasn’t that man at all whom she remembered as the afternoon dragged by to its close; it wasn’t the big-shouldered body nervelessly asprawl upon the floor that filled her memory.
From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto
If you'd liked you could have chucked us all asprawl, an' that would have bin the end of it, with me down.
From A Man to His Mate by Mulford, Stockton
He sprang wildly upward, screaming with the sudden pain, and came down, his legs asprawl, surprised, enraged, outraged.
From The Boss of the Lazy Y by Seltzer, Charles Alden
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