Example sentences for: sprawl

How can you use “sprawl” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Interstate Highway 15 slashes through the desert and, before reaching the neon sprawl of Las Vegas, passes through Stateline — a smaller resort area with hotels, casinos, and a theme park.

  • Just as you do not need to object to cars to worry about urban sprawl, you do not need to object to enhancement technologies to question where these technologies may be taking us.

  • The Guggenheim Museum, which in recent years has earned a reputation for expansionist sprawl, has mounted a surprisingly intimate exhibition in its New York headquarters.

  • Gore pushed suburban sprawl, health care, and education.

  • Atlanta's sprawl keeps people sitting in their cars for hours, encouraging them to eat fatty fast food and run down kids who, bloated and logy from their indoor lifestyle, bike-less and slow, staggering along on foot, slowed by 35-pound backpacks, make easy targets and a sickening sort of "squish" sound.


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