Example sentences for: sprawling

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

  • It’s small compared to New York or San Francisco’s sprawling Chinatowns, so don’t bother unless you’re really interested.

  • Beijing is too sprawling a town for strolling around, so you can forget the sort of browsing that some European cities offer.

  • One of the leading commercial and industrial centers of the Caribbean, it is characterized by high-rise office blocks and sprawling suburbs.

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

  • 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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