asprawl
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of asprawl
Example Sentences
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Over he went and down, asprawl, into the pit on the other side.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And I lay asprawl upon my arms on the table watching them with the stupid indifference I thought I could so well afford.
From Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
Long after the doctor had left him alone with his terrible problem, Mr. Daney continued to sit in his chair, legs and arms asprawl, chin on breast.
From Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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 Anton Otto Fischer
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