sprawlingly
- a word derived from sprawl.
Example Sentences
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Rays emanate from a black hole near the piece’s center, suggesting a single origin point that many of the other details sprawlingly contradict.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022
Thoron also adapted and directed a one-person version of Junot Díaz’s sprawlingly cross-cultural novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” opening April 21 at Book-It Repertory Theatre and starring Dominican actor Elvis Nolasco.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2018
"River of Fundament" was inspired by "Ancient Evenings," Norman Mailer's sprawlingly bad 1983 novel — 709 pages of benumbed egocentrism set in pharaonic Egypt.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2015
Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose chromosomes are a genetic brawl, an ingathering from all the tribes of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the trio turned in from the road their feet somehow became tangled, and all three went down sprawlingly.
From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.
