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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 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

By this time he had sprawlingly recovered the hat, and made an odd little bobbing bow over it, as if setting everything quite right.

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)