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 across several inland cities, the Orange school district serves 25,000 students and has become more diverse in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

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 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 on the floor, standing around in small groups, or sitting on desktops, they were leafing through old newspapers, looking for the editorial pages.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements