Example sentences for: sprawling

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

  • 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.)

  • Pared down to 384 pages from the sprawling, unfinished, thousand-page manuscript by Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, the novel leaves many critics wondering about the enormous amount of material not included and whether the novel can even truly be called Ellison's book.

  • Madrid is a bustling, sprawling, mostly modern metropolis.

  • Situated only 10 km (6 miles) south of Athens, and almost indistinguishable from the sprawling capital, is Piraeus.

  • The great mass of Los Angeles’s population lives in the sprawling suburbs of the valleys — the San Fernando Valley north of the Hollywood Hills and the San Gabriel Valley stretching east towards San Bernardino.


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