Example Sentences

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Tent camps have sprawled over any empty piece of land.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Tech giants in recent years have sprawled across the nation in search of additional — and sometimes cheaper — talent.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

But those narrower problems have sprawled into a much broader mess.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2021

Many stayed, and the camps have sprawled into makeshift cities ringed by barbed-wire fences.

From New York Times • May 30, 2018

Most of the officers have sprawled around a little fire and are burning their boot-leather thereat.

From From the Ranks by King, Charles