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I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
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Meaning of "sprawling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPRAWLING

sprawling  [ˈsprɔːlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPRAWLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sprawling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SPRAWLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sprawling in the English dictionary

The definition of sprawling in the dictionary is sitting or lying in an ungainly manner with one's limbs spread out. Other definition of sprawling is spreading out in a straggling fashion.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPRAWLING


appalling
əˈpɔːlɪŋ
bawling
ˈbɔːlɪŋ
brawling
ˈbrɔːlɪŋ
calling
ˈkɔːlɪŋ
caterwauling
ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ
crawling
ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
disinthralling
ˌdɪsɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
drawling
ˈdrɔːlɪŋ
enthralling
ɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
falling
ˈfɔːlɪŋ
footballing
ˈfʊtˌbɔːlɪŋ
galling
ˈɡɔːlɪŋ
kerb-crawling
kɜːb ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
morling
ˈmɔːlɪŋ
paintballing
ˈpeɪntˌbɔːlɪŋ
Pauling
ˈpɔːlɪŋ
squalling
ˈskwɔːlɪŋ
trawling
ˈtrɔːlɪŋ
unrecalling
ˌʌnrɪˈkɔːlɪŋ
warling
ˈwɔːlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPRAWLING

sprained
spraint
sprang
sprangle
sprat
Spratly Islands
sprattle
sprauncy
sprawl
sprawled
sprawler
sprawly
spray
spray can
spray gun
spray paint
spray-on
sprayer
sprayey
spraying machine

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPRAWLING

bowling
carpet bowling
cowling
crown green bowling
curb crawling
feeling
five-pin bowling
fowling
handling
howling
kerb crawling
mailing
pair trawling
prowling
Rowling
scowling
seam bowling
tenpin bowling
wildfowling
yowling

Synonyms and antonyms of sprawling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SPRAWLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sprawling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sprawling

Translation of «sprawling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPRAWLING

Find out the translation of sprawling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sprawling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sprawling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蔓生
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en expansión
570 millions of speakers

English

sprawling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विशाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المترامية الاطراف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

растягивание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alastrando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sprawling,
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tentaculaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Luas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weitläufige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

広大な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불규칙하게 넓어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sprawling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nằm dài ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பரந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Sprawling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yayılan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tentacolare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozległym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розтягування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

asupra lui
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάκλισης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gespartel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spretande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

viltvoksende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sprawling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPRAWLING»

The term «sprawling» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.809 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPRAWLING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sprawling» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sprawling» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sprawling

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10 QUOTES WITH «SPRAWLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sprawling.
1
Kenneth Grahame
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
2
Jim Harrison
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
3
James Jones
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.
4
Jandy Nelson
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
5
Dean O'Gorman
I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
6
Louise Slaughter
Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
7
Robert Smithson
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
8
Jonathan Turley
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.
9
Daniel H. Wilson
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
10
Vash Young
Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRAWLING»

Discover the use of sprawling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sprawling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sprawling Places
Theme parks, suburban sprawl, anonymous functional places such as airports and parking lots are real human spaces, contends Kolb (emeritus philosophy, Bates College).
David Kolb, 2008
2
Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health
Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally; this book examines the past and present role of architecture in relation to the public health consequences of unmitigated sprawl ...
Stephen Verderber, 2012
3
Turning Space Into Place in the Sprawling "new City": ...
CONCLUSION A search for place in a sprawling, spatially fragmented landscape is what first stimulated this inquiry. The seemingly endless hodgepodge of shopping malls, office complexes and housing developments connected by intricately ...
Lael Leslie, 2008
4
Facebook API Developers Guide
Crocodylians and other extant reptiles have a sprawling posture. This means that their limbs extend outward to the sides, and their bodies are lifted just a little off the ground, as needed, when the animals walk or run. When resting, a sprawling  ...
Wayne Graham, 2008
5
Transit services for sprawling areas with relatively low ...
The colonias along the Texas-Mexico border are one of the most rapidly growing areas in Texas.
Luca Quadrifoglio, Shailesh Chandra, Chung-Wei Shen, 2009
6
Bridging the Gap: Returning to God
If you are seeking a relationship with Christ—if you want to gain a greater awareness and assurance of His powerful love—then this guide can help.
Kimberly Sprawling, 2014
7
Tate & Synder Architects: architecture in a sprawling landscape
This is the central question Tate & Snyders Architects have been asking themselves for the last four decades, concentrating more and more on the design of civic, educational and public buildings.
Tate & Snyder Architects, Aaron Betsky, 2000
8
CityVille For Dummies
The packed city's opposite number, a sprawling city, is blessed (or plagued) with a surfeit of space. Possibly inspired by the suburbs that have come to dominate wide swaths of the United States, the sprawling city owner has invested huge ...
Kyle Orland, Michelle Oxman, 2011
9
Bears in the Backyard: Big Animals, Sprawling Suburbs, and ...
Author Edward Ricciuti explores cutting-edge research into why it’s happening, how it impacts all of us, and how to deal with it on both societal and personal levels.
Ed Ricciuti, 2014
10
Loading Mechanics in Femora of Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma ...
Discussion Loading regimes and magnitudes in tegu femora Results from force and strain analyses in tegus are consistent with those seen in salamanders and other studies of limb bone loading in sprawling tetrapods. Tegu femora, like those  ...
Kathryn Megan Wright, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPRAWLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sprawling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fuel Feud Pits Saudis' Secretive Ghawar Against Sprawling Bakken
Picture a shallow lake of oil sprawling under the Great Plains for hundreds of miles, trapped in dolomite. That requires fracking, and fracking costs money. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
2
A Sprawling Hamptons Estate Offered at $95 Million
A sprawling, 18,000-square-foot house in Wainscott, N.Y., with more than 2,000 feet of frontage on secluded Georgica Pond, and interiors enhanced with custom ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
North Korea's Sprawling African Diplomacy Makes Hermit Kingdom …
The government of North Korea has rightfully gained a reputation in the West for isolation and obstinacy, but its diplomatic ventures in Africa have poised it to be ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
4
Is this the ultimate doer-upper?: Sprawling £3m mansion now worth …
Could this sprawling mansion - once home to a legendary British mountaineer - be the ultimate DIY doer-upper? In its heyday sprawling 10-bedroom Hobcroft ... «Scottish Daily Record, Jul 15»
5
Sprawling Home 'Meticulously Renovated' in 2006
This South Hamilton home located at 408 Bridge St., is ideal for the home buyer seeking renovations with attention to detail and privacy created by acres of ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
6
Amanda Holden gets naughty as she talks about her 'sprawling
He continued: "Whether you've got a balcony or a sprawling garden, they'll show you ... then boldly announced: "I'd love them to deal with my sprawling garden! «Express.co.uk, Jun 15»
7
Michael Clarke selling sprawling South Coast estate for $6.69 million
VIEW FROM ABOVE: Michael and Kyly Clarke's recently renovated Round Hill estate is on the market, and only a few years after the couple bought the property. «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
8
Seat sprawling: An uncomfortable problem for all fliers
It's a "perverse" problem with no easy solution, say airline passengers such as David Kazarian. What do you do when someone invades your personal space on ... «USA TODAY, Mar 15»
9
America's Least Sprawling City Is...Los Angeles?
Carolco PicturesWhich of America's metropolitan regions has the least sprawl? Thomas Laidley, a sociologist at New York University, has just published a paper ... «Reason, Feb 15»
10
L.A. Is America's "Least Sprawling" City!?
Los Angeles is the very archetype of the sprawling, American sunbelt city. Just ask The New York Times, which persists in its utterly lame, outdated, ... «LA Weekly, Feb 15»

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