spraddle

American  

[sprad-l] / ˈspræd l /

verb (used with object)

spraddled, spraddling

1. to straddle.

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verb (used without object)

spraddled, spraddling

1. to sprawl.

Etymology

Origin of spraddle

1625–35; origin uncertain; compare Norwegian dialect spradla squirm, flail

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Example Sentences

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spraddle spraddled spraddling

At Utah State University, he sent the discus on trajectories exceeding 180 ft. from the awkward spraddle that marks his stance.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And all the good hard dollars just waiting for someone to spraddle them around!" said Mr. Bunner with a note of pathos in his voice.

From The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

I watched her spraddle down the aisle and out through the little corridor before I dared risk the accident of a backward turn of that funny green hat.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott

And then they stay doormen forever, standing spraddled outside the door, their backs straight as furled umbrellas.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2010

Overnight refineries spraddled the shore of the Persian Gulf, pipelines crawled past ancient caravan trails to the Mediterranean.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only way he could write was with both legs spraddled across the typewriter, lolling back in an armchair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crow spraddled head-down in the beach-garbage, guzzling a dropped ice-cream.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was uncomfortable and his legs were spraddled and his body was very sore.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Then he hit he tack, and I heard him holler and caught a glimpse of him spraddling up as I disappeared through the door.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

But all this is only the outside of the old mahogany high-boy with its meerschaum-pipe polish, spraddling legs, and rattling handles.

From The Little Gray Lady 1909 by Francis Hopkinson Smith

For two or three years he followed the flocks in their summer grazing over the vast, spraddling mesas of Pine Mountain, and made a general nuisance of himself in the camps.

From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Allen Kelly

"It takes just so much time to do so much work," stated Welton succinctly, "and it don't matter whether you do it all at once, or try to fool yourself by spraddling it out."

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

When it saw its audience—the spaceship's crew—watching, it took two spraddling steps forward, pulled the bulk of its pot-bellied stomach up into its chest and paused dramatically.

From Big Stupe by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

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