Example sentences for: sprawling

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

  • The top of the NYT front features a sprawling piece about how private investigators are using online resources to dig ever deeper into private information.

  • The western sector was divided among the French in the north around Tegel Airport, the British mainly in the center from the Tiergarten to Spandau, and the Americans in the sprawling southwest corner from Kreuzberg out to the Grunewald and Wannsee.

  • 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.)

  • The WP puts forth a gigantic effort to assess the entire 2nd millennium, with sprawling essays on the span's history, and on its concepts of liberty, love, hate, ingenuity, fear, beauty, thought, and mystery.

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


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