sprawl
verb (used without object)
to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner.
sprawler
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a word derived from
sprawl.
Example Sentences
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At the off-campus sprawler that houses the baseball team, bro by bro Jake meets his team.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2016
Given his taste for the miniature, for his Japanese garden and rows of dwarf trees, Ravel's muted enthusiasm for Wagner, the sprawler to beat all sprawlers, is hardly a surprise.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
But no third creature was in sight except the insensate sprawler in the dew.
From The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
“There’s only one staggerer and one sprawler now,” said Dan, with a laugh; “your own George and Toc’s Dumplin’.”
From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
