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- adverb Sprawling.
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- adjective
sprawling
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Examples
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I saw Rowbotham pinned under a fallen horse only a few yards away; Cheeseman, his face a bloody mask, was stretched supine beside him, his limbs asprawl; Ilderim, with his left arm dangling, was half-up on one knee, clutching at my stirrup.
Fiancée 2010
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Wheeler himself was down on one knee, supporting the fat babu, who was wailing with a shattered leg; the frail civilian was lying asprawl, his cricket cap gone and his head just a squashed red mess.
Fiancée 2010
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They certainly looked it, limbs casually asprawl, faces slack and glowing in the firelight.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Two of them jostle in the air and come down twisted and asprawl.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Two of them jostle in the air and come down twisted and asprawl.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Two of them jostle in the air and come down twisted and asprawl.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He even put an arm lightly about the small of her back before a sailor-and-girl pitched into them from behind, sorely treading his left big toe and knocking Magda asprawl with them.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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All of asprawl he was laying too amengst the poppies and, I can tell you something more than that, drear writer, profoundly as you may bedeave to it, he was oscasleep asleep.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I look at how women sit all asprawl and think, "grow up, sit up and put those knees together!"
Comportment PeaceBang 2006
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And opposite to him his mutinous son was sitting asprawl in a chair, smoking a cheap cigarette with an exceptionally heavy scowl; a lively picture of youthful impiety.
chained_bear commented on the word asprawl
What a great word.
March 11, 2008