Example sentences for: sprawling

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

  • Steps lead down the hill through sprawling development to a rather nice, but crowded, sandy beach.

  • All the heat on Currie makes Chatterbox think: Was the sprawling, seemingly loony essay by Henry Louis "Skip the Truth" Gates Jr. in last week's New Yorker (see Chatterbox for 3/3) actually a far more narrowly-targeted appeal than Chatterbox thought--specifically, an appeal for Currie to lie for Clinton, much as Rose Mary Woods (the heroine of Gates' essay) is thought to have lied for Nixon?...

  • Yesterday's NYT ran a sprawling front-page "special report" raising the question of whether the now-confirmed ability in recent years of China to miniaturize nuclear weapons was a result of spying on the United States or just hard, independent work.

  • Besides the sprawling front-page coverage, there are editorials in both Times , as well as a strong op-ed presence, which includes the effort in the NYT in which Paul Simon, of "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"

  • Critics anoint Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry's sprawling, postmodern titanium-and-stone edifice "one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century" (Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker ). (Click here for a photo.)


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