Example sentences for: sprawls

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

  • Havana sprawls over more than 700 square km (270 square miles) and is divided into five districts.

  • The Middle East peace deal, signed yesterday after nine days of intense negotiations, sprawls across all front pages--the Washington Post , the New York Times , and the Los Angeles Times . The papers' tone is cautiously optimistic: They concur that the agreement--in which Israel cedes more West Bank land to the Palestinians and gets promises of increased security--essentially retraces the 1993 and 1995 Oslo accords.

  • Inca’s Thursday market sprawls through the streets, and tour buses arrive in flotillas, even though the goods are much the same as in other markets on the island.

  • Founded by the Phoenicians, Vélez sprawls around a historic center dominated by a Moorish alcazaba and two venerable churches: the late-Gothic Iglesia de San Juan Bautista and the Iglesia de Santa María (which incorporates a section of the town’s former mosque).

  • The thriving city has long since spread beyond the fifth-century Byzantine walls built by the Emperor Theodosius II, and now sprawls for miles along the shores of the Sea of Marmara on both the European and Asian sides.


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