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Sprawling

adjective

Spreading out in different directions. Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly. "Straggling branches" , "Straggly hair"

noun

An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about. Synonym: sprawl.

Sprawl

verb

(past & past part. sprawled; pres. part. sprawling)

Sit or lie with one's limbs spread out.

Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way. Synonym: straggle.

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"Sprawling" Quotes from Famous Books

... he spoke the flyer gave a lurch which nearly threw me off my seat and which sent Jim sprawling on the floor. With a white face he leaped to the control board and pulled the lever controlling our one working stern motor to full power. For a moment the ship moved upward and then came to a dead stop, although the motor still roared ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... whether his features are those of a man or of something between a lion and an ox; the face too is turned away from the action of the figure, and is so badly set upon the neck, with such poverty of art and so ill a grace, that nothing worse was ever seen; his sprawling shoulders are like the two pommels of an ass' pack-saddle; his breasts and all the muscles of the body are not portrayed from a man, but from a big sack full of melons set upright against a wall. The loins seem to be modelled from a bag of lanky pumpkins; nobody can tell how his two legs are attached ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

... and his eyes turned mechanically from his own visage on shining steel, to the letter held in an old hand so veined that it reminded the young man of a rock netted with the sprawling roots of ancient trees. He had just time to recognize the writing as that of Adalbert, Crown Prince of Hungaria, whom he knew slightly, when keen eyes curtained with furled and wrinkled lids, glanced up ...

— The Princess Virginia • C. N. Williamson

... side leaped forward through the hedge. Mr. Crow was dimly conscious of a mishap to his erstwhile captor. He heard him curse as he went sprawling over ...

— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

... sound. From the four quarters of the moor there closed in upon us horsemen. They came silently and were about us before I had a hint of their presence. It was a troop of dragoons in the king's buff and scarlet, and they rode us down as if we had been hares in a field. The next I knew of it I was sprawling on the ground with a dizzy head, and horses trampling around me, I had a glimpse of Muckle John with a pistol at his nose, and the sorrel curveting and plunging in a panic. Then I bethought myself of saving my bones, and crawled out of the mellay ...

— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan

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