Example Sentences

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Nicole was sprawling, covering nearly the entire weather-weary state of Florida while also reaching into Georgia and the Carolinas before dawn on Thursday.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2022

The Americans were released Wednesday as part of a prisoner exchange between the governments in Kyiv and Moscow, an agreement as stunning as it was sprawling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

By 2016, Mr. Musk’s business empire was sprawling.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

Summer, after all, isn't what it once was, sprawling out across the endless days, time loose and undifferentiated, full of possibility.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2014

Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell