Example sentences for: sprawling

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

  • Re-released two weeks ago to commemorate its 25 th anniversary, The Godfather depicts Mafiosi ruling a sprawling business empire in the 1940s.

  • 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.

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

  • 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 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.


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