Example sentences for: sprawling

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

  • 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.

  • The NYT front continues the sprawling series on adoption it started yesterday.

  • 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.

  • The Baluchistan region of Pakistan (KSM's ethnic home) and the sprawling city of Karachi remain centers of Islamist extremism where the U.S. and Pakistani security and intelligence presence has been weak.

  • The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.


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